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«Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proven innocent»
«No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.»
«There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
hardly, more or less, nearly, one-sided, Other side, reaction, The other side, wins
«In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| About:
Politics,
Speech
| Keywords:
indefensible, In Our Time, largely
«It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
consequently, defender, defenders, democratic, praising, regime, regimes, The Defenders, tied, universally
«Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.»
«The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.»
«To accept an unorthodoxy is always to inherit unresolved contradictions»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
contradictions, inherit, unorthodoxy, unresolved
«Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.»
«The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.»
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