Scientific education for the masses will do little good, and probably a lot of harm, if it simply boils down to more physics, more chemistry, more bi… - George Orwell

In nearly seventy pages, it is astonishing how little he says, and how impressively he says it.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

The revolutionary atmosphere remained as I had first known it. General and private, peasant and militiaman, still met as equals; everyone drew the same pay, wore the same clothes, ate the same food, and called everyone else 'thou' and 'comrade'; there was no boss-class, no menial-class, no beggars, no prostitutes, no lawyers, no priests, no boot-licking, no cap-touching. I was breathing the air of equality, and I was simple enough to imagine that it existed all over Spain. I did not realize that more or less by chance I was isolated among the most revolutionary section of the Spanish working class.