“So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.”
George Orwell
“We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield”
"There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them."
- George Orwell
One of the reasons why Orwell was able to write a classic like Animal Farm was his unique insight into the "elites".
Orwell had so many great lines
“So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.”
George Orwell
“We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield”