Quote by George Orwell
To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization. – 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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Jealousy
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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between ones real and ones declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. – George Orwell

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great
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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. – George Orwell

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God
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War
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A day of battle is a day of harvest for the devil. – William Hooke

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War

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy. – Aldous Huxley

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War

Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war. – Toni Morrison

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War

I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it. I hate war, and never again will I sanction or support another. – Harry Emerson Fosdick

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War

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We will have to give up the hope that, if we try hard, we somehow will always do right by our children. The connection is imperfect. We will sometimes do wrong. – Judith Viorst

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Hope

There are people who have money and people who are rich. – Coco Chanel

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Money

When a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow. – Proverb

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Leadership

A teacher is a person who never says anything once. – Howard Nemerov

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