"The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it."
"Every war, when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac."
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Source: George Orwell's review of the book The Men I Killed by Brigadier-General F. P. Crozier in New Statesman and Nation, August 28, 1937.
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