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" Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell. "

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" As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. "

" 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. "

" The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them. "

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" Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible. "

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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. "

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" Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism. "

" Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. "

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" Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac. "

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" 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. "

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" Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion. "

" In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. "

" A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him. "

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" Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. "