Original (unused) preface http://home.iprimus.com.au/korob/Orwell.html to Animal Farm (1945); as published in George Orwell: Some Materials for a Bibliography (1953) by Ian R. Willison
Context: 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.
“I still think the worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.”
Source: Reflections on the Failure of Socialism (1955), p. 57
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The boot in the face, the brute
Brute heart of a brute like you.”
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