من يسيطر على الماضي يسيطر على المستقبل، ومن يسيطر على الحاضر يسيطر على الماضي. - George Orwell

I am struck again by the fact that as soon as a working man gets an official post in the Trade Union or goes into Labour politics, he becomes middle-class whether he will or no. ie. by fighting against the bourgeoisie he becomes a bourgeois. The fact is that you cannot help living in the manner appropriate and developing the ideology appropriate to your income.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.