“In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.”
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Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.
Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
