WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/orwell-george/37598/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Orwell</b></a></p><blockquote>Back in the nineteen-hundreds it was a wonderful experience for a boy to discover H. G. Wells. There you were, in a world of pedants, clergymen and golfers, with your future employers exhorting you to “get on or get out”, your parents systematically warping your sexual life, and your dull-witted schoolmasters sniggering over their Latin tags; and here was this wonderful man who could tell you about the inhabitants of the planets and the bottom of the sea, and who <i>knew</i> that the future was not going to be what respectable people imagined.</blockquote><p><b>George Orwell</b> (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]<br>Essay (1941-08), “Wells, Hitler, and the World State,” <i>Horizon</i></p> <p>Sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/orwell-george/37598/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">wist.info/orwell-george/37598/</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=qotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>qotd</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=hgwells" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hgwells</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=adventure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>adventure</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=future" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>future</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=iconoclasm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>iconoclasm</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=idealism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>idealism</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=optimism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>optimism</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reading</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=progress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>progress</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=respectability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>respectability</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=sciencefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sciencefiction</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>society</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=speculation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>speculation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=youth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>youth</span></a></p>