The important thing is that you should not argue with them [Communists]....Whatever you say, they have ways of twisting it into shapes which put you in some lower category of mankind, ‘Fascist, ’ ‘Liberal, ’ ‘Trotskyist, ’ and disparage you both intellectually and personally in the process.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
About This Quote

This quote by George Orwell is a warning. Orwell was talking about the power of the government to bend words and ideas to its own purposes. He was trying to warn people that they should not argue with Communists or try to reason with them. If you do they will twist your words and you will be made to look foolish and ridiculous in the process.

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