“Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.”
“Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious,” is a paraphrased quote from George Orwell’s 1939 review …
Liberty
“You are free to be a drunkard, an idler, a coward, a backbiter; but you are not free to think for yourself.”
Orwell actually wrote: “You are free to be a drunkard, an idler, a coward, a backbiter, a fornicator; but you are not …
Orwell: Politics and the English language
“Political language – and with variations, this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists – is designed to make …
Orwell on liberty and freedom of expression
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” ~ George …