A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with … - George Orwell

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When we can sit in the face of insanity or dislikes and be free from the need to make it different, then we are free.

George Orwell

A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one's will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic. And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp.

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