British - Author | June 25, 1903 - January 21, 1950
Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
George Orwell
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The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
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Good writing is like a windowpane.
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Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.
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What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?
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Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.
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All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
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Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.
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The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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