"The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it."
"When you meet anyone in the flesh you realize immediately that he is a human being and not a sort of caricature embodying certain ideas. It is partly for this reason that I don't mix much in literary circles, because I know from experience that once I have met and spoken to anyone I shall never again be able to feel any intellectual brutality towards him, even when I feel I ought to - like the Labour M.P.s who get patted on the back by dukes and are lost forever more."
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Source: George Orwell (1998). “Two wasted years, 1943”, Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd
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