Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes. - George Orwell

[...]I should say that it is a good rule of thumb never to mention religion if you can possibly avoid it.

One need not swallow such absurdities as this, but one ought to recognise that the present political chaos is connected with the decay of language, and that one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end. If you simplify your English, you are freed from the worst follies of orthodoxy.

[F]inally, a year after the outbreak of war and revolution, there remained a Government composed entirely of Right-wing Socialists, Liberals, and Communists. – chap. 5