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" To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others. "

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" The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time. "

" The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun. "

" He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him. "

" 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? "

" I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment. "

" On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. "

" Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. "

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

" All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. "

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

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

" Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility. "

" Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness. "

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

" All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. "

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

" It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. "

" War is war. The only good human being is a dead one. "