"The thing that strikes me more and more, is the extraordinary viciousness and dishonesty of political controversy in our time. I don't mean merely that controversies are acrimonious. They ought to be that when they are on serious subjects. I mean that almost nobody seems to feel that an opponent deserves a fair hearing or that the objective truth matters as long as you can score a neat debating point."

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George Orwell was an English novelist, essayist, and critic known for Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. His writing examined power, propaganda, poverty, and political language. He remains one of the most influential political writers of the 20th century.

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