British - Author | June 25, 1903 - January 21, 1950
Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.
George Orwell
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Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.
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In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
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The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
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A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
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War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.
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War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.
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War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.
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He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.
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The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.
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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.
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