We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
George Orwell
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- In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
- Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
- The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
- Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.
- I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.