Quote by George Orwell
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classe

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it. – George Orwell

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If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics – a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage – surely that proves that you are in the right? – George Orwell

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Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice. – George Orwell

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The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm. – Albert Camus

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Republicans have been losing the war of words for years now. Now they are just caving because they dont even want to try. I dont agree with that approach. – Herman Cain

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War

And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by the Japanese and held and who were rescued by Filipino Americans, or Filipinos I should say, and by U.S. troops near the close of the war. – Dana Rohrabacher

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In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers. – Neville Chamberlain

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First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping. – L. Neil Smith

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If you wait until your children are high school seniors to spring it on them that theres not a whole lot of money for school, they wont have too many options. – Suze Orman

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Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same – hardihood. Give them raw truth. – John Jay Chapman

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