"The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it."
"All nationalistic distinctions - all claims to be better than somebody else because you have a different-shaped skull or speak a different dialect - are entirely spurious, but they are important so long as people believe in them."
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Source: George Orwell (2016). “The Road to Wigan Pier”, p.76, Jester House Publishing
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