Quote by George Orwell
If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ord

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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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting. – George Orwell

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A family with the wrong members in control that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase. – George Orwell

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There are far too many men in politics and not enough elsewhere. – Hermione Gingold

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For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business. – Wilfrid Laurier

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Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance. – William O. Douglas

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I cant see why anyone would want to be in politics because you get so much criticism. – David Walliams

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