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We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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George Orwell, in a review of Power: A New Social Analysis by Bertrand Russell in Adelphi (January 1939).
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Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
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George Orwell, in a review of A Coat of Many Colours: Occasional Essays by Herbert Read, Poetry Quarterly (Winter 1945).
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It appears to me that one defeats the fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.
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George Orwell, in a letter to Richard Rees (3 March 1949).
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No doubt, sulking populists in every era stay mean as weasels because they despise any form of superior intelligence except shrewdness.
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Kent Owen, Review of Profscam: Professors And The Demise Of Higher Education in The American Spectator (May 1989), p. 44.