"So much of left-wing thought is a..." - Quote by George Orwell
So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.
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“History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
“The fact is that certain themes cannot be celebrated in words, and tyranny is one of them. No one ever wrote a good book in praise of the Inquisition.”
“Probably the best nonsense poetry is produced gradually and accidentally, by communities rather than by individuals.”
More on Politics
“There are some natures which never grow large enough to speak out and say a bad act is a bad act, until they have inquired into the politics or the nationality of the man who did it.”
“To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.”
“If I were German and I had a vote, I might support Angela Merkel.”
More on Ideology
“Since opposed principles, or ideologies, are irreconcilable, wars fought over principle will be wars of mutual annihilation. But wars fought for simple greed will be far less destructive, because the aggressor will be careful not to destroy what he is fighting to capture. Reasonable - that is, human - men will always be capable of compromise, but men who have dehumanized themselves by becoming the blind worshipers of an idea or an ideal are fanatics whose devotion to abstractions makes them the enemies of life.”
“The New York times' long-standing motto, 'All the News That's Fit to Print,' should be changed to reflect today's reality: 'Manufacturing News to Fit an Ideology.'”
“The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'.”