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" Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent. "

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" Serious sport is war minus the shooting. "

" Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf. "

" All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting. "

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

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

" Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there. "

" Good writing is like a windowpane. "

" So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot. "

" Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant. "

" Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing. "

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" War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. "

" Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. "

" The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. "

" If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right? "

" The best books... are those that tell you what you know already. "

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

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

" War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent. "

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" The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature. "

" 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. "

" The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. "

" Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting. "

" Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia. "

" As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents. "

" One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return. "