Most revolutionaries are potential tories, because they imagine that everything can be put right by altering the shape of society; once that change is effected, as it sometimes is, they see no need for any other.

George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]

Essay (1939), “Charles Dickens,” sec. 6, Inside the Whale (1940-03-11)
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