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Quote by George Orwell
Serious sport is war minus the shooting. - George Orwell

Serious sport is war minus the shooting. – George Orwell

Other quotes by George Orwell

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. – George Orwell

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Virtue
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George Orwell
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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. – George Orwell

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power
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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. – George Orwell

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good
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George Orwell
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Other Quotes from
War
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Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource. – Al Gore

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War

Throughout the 20th century, the Republican Party benefited from a non-interventionist foreign policy. Think of how Eisenhower came in to stop the Korean War. Think of how Nixon was elected to stop the mess in Vietnam. – Ron Paul

Category:
War

The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagles own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction. – Aesop

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War

If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp would be alive today. And that research has saved or prolonged many lives, including mine. – Arlen Specter

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War

Random Quotes

When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints. – Samuel Johnson

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Complaining

Find the human in the technology. The currency marketers trade in has not changed even if the methods have. Emotion is what we exchange. – Simon Mainwaring

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Technology

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men. – Herodotus

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Death

Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room? – Garry Trudeau

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Medical