Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it. It seems to me nonsense, in a period like our own, to think that one can avoid writing of such subjects. Everyone writes of them in one guise or another. It is simply a question of which side one takes and what approach one follows. And the more one is conscious of one's political bias, the more chance one has of acting politically without sacrificing one's aesthetic and intellectual integrity. George Orwell
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The quote "every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it" is one of the most quoted quotes in the world. It was said by author George Orwell. He was a British writer, political activist, and journalist who is best known for his dystopian novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four". This quote is used to show that politics should not be deprived from art, or art from politics.

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