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To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.


George Orwell

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GEORGE ORWELL Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their b...
GEORGE ORWELL People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on t...
GEORGE ORWELL He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personal...
GEORGE ORWELL The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and inte...
GEORGE ORWELL Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
GEORGE ORWELL Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physi...
GEORGE ORWELL Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its ow...
GEORGE ORWELL