Conversation

Orwell on *Gulliver's Travels*: "In a Society in which there is no law, and in theory no compulsion, the only arbiter of behaviour is public opinion. But public opinion [...] is less tolerant than any system of law. When human beings are governed by ‘thou shalt not’, the individual can practise a certain amount of eccentricity: when they are supposedly governed by ‘love’ or ‘reason’, he is under continuous pressure to make him behave and think in exactly the same way as everyone else."