That is major theme in literature beyond the political -isms found in Animal Farm.
I'm thinking Carol Kennicott in Sinclair Lewis's Main Street which is also a book I read fifty years ago.
In the sixties and seventies it was popular to crap on Lewis's Nobel prize.
On this forum Lewis's politics will be pointed out after he wrote the book.
As someone who grew up in the rural Midwest, I thought Main Street was a book which deserved its reputation.
Whether the "road to hell is paved with good intentions" has a Christian origin is not known.
But as Christian I accept it as profound as I would accept it if it had indeed originated in the Book of Proverbs.
It is ironic that both Orwell and Lewis would point out where good intentions most often lead although both were confirmed atheists.
“”Whether the “road to hell is paved with good intentions” has a Christian origin is not known.””
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Not known for certain, but we’ve seen ample evidence that sublime stupidity coupled with ‘good intentions’ has had and probably always will have disastrous results.
Prime current example, the Democrats always claim (pretend) to have good intentions... while they further destroy the country by claiming their policies are for the children, or for the poor or for the homeless.... while enacting policies that further harm the children, the poor, the homeless AND the middle class.
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