Tao Te Ching

“A jingo imperialist, morally insensitive, and aesthetically disgusting, and although every enlightened person has despised him ... nine-tenths of those enlightened persons are forgotten and Kipling is in some sense still there... He dealt largely in platitudes, and since we live in a world of platitudes, much of what he said sticks.”

— George Orwell 1903 – 1950 CE via Shan Dao
English, poet, humanist, apostle of doubt, and powerful political influence