“Work diligently to discern the facts of the matter, and then use your principles to respond. They” — Thomas E Ricks Diligently Copy Share Image
“England is the most class-ridden country under the sun,” Orwell charged in “The Lion and the Unicorn.” “It is a land of… — Thomas E Ricks England Copy Share Image
“As Orwell once wrote, “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want… — Thomas E Ricks Freedom Copy Share Image
“was a moral victory simply to question the official presentation of truth and posit an alternative by documenting observable reality.” — Thomas E Ricks Moral victory Copy Share Image
“Other wartime leaders would do well to imitate his inquisitive approach. They should not look for consensus, and instead should examine differences… — Thomas E Ricks Different views Copy Share Image
“Even so, his friend the journalist Malcolm Muggeridge would conclude that “he was at heart strongly anti-Semitic.” At” — Thomas E Ricks Copy Share Image
“is clear now that appeasement rested more on self-delusion than on rational calculation, because it necessarily required faith in Hitler’s sanity and… — Thomas E Ricks Israel Copy Share Image
“Orwell once commented that “whether the British ruling class are wicked or merely stupid is one of the most difficult questions of… — Thomas E Ricks Difficult questions Copy Share Image
“Yet Orwell never fit into the BBC. At about the same time, he wrote in his diary, “Its atmosphere is something between… — Thomas E Ricks Copy Share Image
“Another surprising fan mention came from Keith Richards, the guitarist for the Rolling Stones, who defended his dissipated lifestyle by correctly citing… — Thomas E Ricks Copy Share Image
“Churchill, sensitive to class considerations in his conduct of the war, instructed his generals and admirals to be careful in how they… — Thomas E Ricks Armed forces Copy Share Image
“There are eight other instances in the book of Orwell noting the scents of his environment, most of them repugnant. There are… — Thomas E Ricks Books Copy Share Image
“In most places and most of the time, liberty is not a product of military action. Rather, it is something alive that… — Thomas E Ricks Copy Share Image
“Hamlet is the tragedy of a man who does not know how to commit a murder. Macbeth is the tragedy of a… — Thomas E Ricks Hamlet Copy Share Image
“During the same Monte Carlo trip, Churchill, while waiting outside the casino for his car, was buttonholed by Frank Sinatra, the American… — Thomas E Ricks Copy Share Image
“Spring is here, even in London N.1, and they can’t stop you from enjoying it,” he wrote in April 1946. “The atom… — Thomas E Ricks Atom bomb Copy Share Image
“When he went through a cancer scare and had a benign tumor removed, his sometime friend Evelyn Waugh remarked that it was… — Thomas E Ricks Adult life Copy Share Image
“Orwell depicts the proletarians as essentially uncontrollable. The state does not try to control them as much as it simply distracts them.” — Thomas E Ricks Copy Share Image
“Indeed, after the war, German commanders being debriefed confirmed that they had been ordered to stop about eight miles outside Dunkirk. “My… — Thomas E Ricks Israel Copy Share Image
“One day in the 1950s, one of Churchill’s grandsons poked his head into the old man’s study. Is it true, the child… — Thomas E Ricks Children Copy Share Image
