If publishers and editors exert themselves to keep certain topics out of print, it is not because they are frightened of prosecution but because they are frightened of public opinion. In this country intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face, and that fact does not seem to me to have had the discussion it deserves.


Original (unused) preface to Animal Farm (1945); as published in George Orwell: Some Materials for a Bibliography (1953) by Ian R. Willison

George Orwell Quotes

If publishers and editors exert themselves to keep certain topics out of print, it is not because they are frightened of prosecution but because they ...

If publishers and editors exert themselves to keep certain topics out of print, it is not because they are frightened of prosecution but because they ...

If publishers and editors exert themselves to keep certain topics out of print, it is not because they are frightened of prosecution but because they ...

If publishers and editors exert themselves to keep certain topics out of print, it is not because they are frightened of prosecution but because they ...