Assuming Quote by George Orwell

“The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.” quote by George Orwell — Download Open image

“The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.”

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“And the people under the sky were also very much the same...everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just like this, people ignorant of one another's existence, held apart by walls of hatred and lies, and yet almost exactly the same -- people who had never learned to think but were storing up in their…

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