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Biography - George Orwell:

George Orwell (pen name of Eric Arthur Blair) is an English novelist, essayist and journalist. He was born in Motihari, British India.
Born: 1903 - Died: 1950
Period:
20th century
Place of birth: India
India

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.



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Quotes for: war


Quotes

Quotes about war:


There was never a good war, or a bad peace.





War is sweet to those who have no experience of it,
but the experienced man trembles exceedingly at heart on its approach.

Pindar / 





At the bottom of all patriotism there is war: that is why I am no patriot.





War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.





Whatever makes for cultural development is working also against war.





In time of war the laws are silent.











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George Orwell also said...


To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.





Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.





The consequences of every act are included in the act itself.





Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.





If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.





If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.












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