“So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.”

—  George Orwell, book Inside the Whale and Other Essays

Inside the Whale (1940) http://orwell.ru/library/essays/whale/english/e_itw <br class="br">Source: Inside the Whale and Other Essays

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