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

Other quotes by George Orwell

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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As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents. – George Orwell

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Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious. – George Orwell

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Men
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Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a war their party entered and had effectively lost, before Nixon salvaged a non-Communist South Vietnam while effecting a complete American withdrawal. – Conrad Black

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I would not plan to base my campaign primarily on opposition to the war in the Persian Gulf. – George McGovern

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Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster. – William Tecumseh Sherman

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Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war. – Tony Blair

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People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. – Adam Smith

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Unions

And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best? – Thomas Babington Macaulay

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Society

Nobody sees a flower really it is so small. We havent time, and to see takes time – like to have a friend takes time. – Georgia OKeeffe

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Getting out of bed in the morning is an act of false confidence. – Jules Feiffer

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