[…] nous sommes tombés si bas que la reformulation de l’évidence est la première obligation d’un homme intelligent.

George Orwell – Recension de Power: A New Social Analysis de Bertrand Russel (1939)

If there are certain pages of Mr Bertrand Russell’s book, Power, which seem rather empty, that is merely to say that we have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.