Oh, the holiness of always being the injured party. The historically oppressed can find not only sanctity but safety in the state ...of victimization. When access to a better life has been denied often enough, and successfully enough, one can use the rejection as an excuse to cease all efforts. After all, one reckons, "they" don't want me, "they" accept their own mediocrity and refuse my best, "they" don't deserve me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A stiff apology is a second insult.... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to ...be healed because he has been hurt.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care of themselve...s.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the T...ory Party.... So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Literature must become Party literature.... Down with unpartisan litterateurs! Down with the superman of literature! Literature mu...st become a part of the general cause of the proletariat.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »