People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The world sleeps peaceably in their beds while rough men practice violence on their behalf.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Sports have nothing to do with fair play. They are bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Moreover [pacifists] do not as a rule condemn violence as such, but only violence used in defence of western countries” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“If you hate violence and don't believe in politics, the only major remedy remaining is education.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The dark-haired girl behind Winston had begun crying out: 'Swine! Swine! Swine!', and suddenly she picked up a heavy Newspeak dictionary and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We have become too civilized to grasp the obvious. For the truth is very simple. To survive you often have to fight,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The notion that you can somehow defeat violence by submitting to it is simply a flight from fact. As I have said,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“[Football] has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We are not retreating, we are advancing in another direction. We sleep safely in our beds because rough men stand ready in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The tank, the submarine, the torpedo, the machine-gun, even the rifle and the hand grenade are still in use.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Those who abjure violence can only do so by others committing violence on their behalf.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share
It was given out that the animals there practised cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common. This was… — George Orwell Copy Share
“The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running… — George Orwell Copy Share
He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the… — George Orwell Copy Share
“if you took 1 Corinthians, chapter thirteen, and in every verse wrote 'money' instead of 'charity', the chapter had ten times as much meaning… — George Orwell Copy Share
And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became… — George Orwell Copy Share
“Whitman himself "accepted" a great deal that his contemporaries found unmentionable. For he is not only writing of the prairie, he also wanders through… — George Orwell Copy Share
“But I tell you, Winston, that reality is not external. Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Whatever the Party holds to… — George Orwell Copy Share
“And the people under the sky were also very much the same...everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just… — George Orwell Copy Share
Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally… — George Orwell Copy Share
Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly. — George Orwell Copy Share
“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to… — George Orwell Copy Share
And the bigger the fall, the bigger the joke. It would be better fun to throw a custard pie at a bishop than at… — George Orwell Copy Share
“Any writer or journalist who wants to retain his integrity finds himself thwarted by the general drift of society rather than by active persecution.… — George Orwell Copy Share
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