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What is to be expected of them is not treachery, or physcial cowardice, but stupidity, unconscious sabotage, an infallible instinct for doing the wrong thing.

What is to be expected of them is not treachery, or physcial cowardice, but stupidity, unconscious sabotage, an infallible instinct for doing the wrong thing.

George Orwell
Stupidity, Instinct, Cowardice
George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.272, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.

George Orwell
Stupidity, Difficult
George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.369, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I believe that the BBC, in spite of the stupidity of its foreign propaganda and the unbearable voices of its announcers, is very truthful. It is generally regarded here as more reliable than the press.

George Orwell
Believe, Voice, Stupidity
1941 In the Partisan Review,15 Apr. Reprinted in Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters, vol.2.

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