WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/orwell-george/75272/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Orwell</b></a></p><blockquote>A good-tempered antinomianism rather of Dickens’s type is one of the marks of Western popular culture. One sees it in folkstories and comic songs, in dream-figures like Mickey Mouse and Pop-eye the Sailor (both of them variants of Jack the Giant-killer), in the history of working-class Socialism, in the popular protests (always ineffective but not always a sham) against imperialism, in the impulse that makes a jury award excessive damages when a rich man’s car runs over a poor man; it is the feeling that one is always on the side of the underdog, on the side of the weak against the strong.</blockquote><p><b>George Orwell</b> (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]<br>Essay (1939), “Charles Dickens,” sec. 6, <i>Inside the Whale</i> (1940-03-11)</p> <p>Sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/orwell-george/75272/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">wist.info/orwell-george/75272/</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=darkhorse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>darkhorse</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=defiance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>defiance</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=disadvantaged" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disadvantaged</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=downtrodden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>downtrodden</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=laws" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>laws</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=littleguy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>littleguy</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=rules" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rules</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=underdog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>underdog</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=weak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>weak</span></a></p>