George Orwell Quote

So far as I can see, all political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.


"London Letter" (December 1944), in Partisan Review (Winter 1945)


So far as I can see, all political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides...

So far as I can see, all political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides...

So far as I can see, all political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides...

So far as I can see, all political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides...