"The fact is that certain themes cannot..." - Quote by George Orwell
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.
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More on Tyranny
“Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.”
“The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities.”
“Notwithstanding my experiments with electricity the thunderbolt continues to fall under our noses and beards; and as for the tyrant, there are a million of us still engaged at snatching away his sceptre.”
More on Writing
“Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.”
“Nulla (enim) res tantum ad dicendum proficit, quantum scriptio Nothing so much assists learning as writing down what we wish to remember.”
“If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.”