Checking in with Eric Arthur Blair.............

"Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea."

"It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it."

"So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot."

"Either we all live in a decent world, or nobody does."

". . . there is the fact that the intellectuals are more totalitarian in outlook than the common people."

"The relative freedom which we enjoy depends of public opinion. The law is no protection. Governments make laws, but whether they are carried out, and how the police behave, depends on the general temper in the country. If large numbers of people are interested in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it; if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them."

-all quotes lifted from here