One cannot really be Catholic & grown-up. - George Orwell

"But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
From "Politics and the English Language," not 1984."

...the consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable condition of survival.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.