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They didn't give their lives for their country! their lives were taken from them by their government.
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I have come to believe that our lives can be turned in a different direction, our minds adopt a different way of…
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To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a…
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Let's face a historical truth: we have never had a "free market", we have always had government intervention in the economy, and…
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Meditation is simply about being yourself and knowing about who that is. It is about coming to realize that you are on…
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If you join a fight for social justice you may win or lose, but just by being part of the struggle, you…
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There was something horrifying in the realization that, in this twenty-first century of what we call 'civilization,' we have carved up what…
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Is not nationalism - that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder - one of…
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...Surely, we must renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its insistence in song that…
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...We need to assert our allegiance to the human race, and not to any one nation.
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I was a bombadier in WW 2. When you are up 30,000 feet you do not hear the screams or smell the…
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With the indiscriminate nature of modern military technology (no such thing as a "smart bomb," it turns out) all wars are wars…
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Writer George Orwell confessed he found something "deeply appealing" about Adolf Hitler. Where Martha Dodd was struck by Hitler's "weak, soft face,"…
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As George Orwell wisely observed a generation later, the only way swiftly to end a war is to lose it.
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Orwell couldn't see that Big Brother would not be The State, but The Corporation.
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George Orwell once blamed the demise of the English language on politics. It's quite possible he never read a prospectus.
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George Orwell said, "Whoever controls the past controls the future," by which he meant that history is incredibly important in shaping the…
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I want to read Keats and Wordsworth, Hemingway, George Orwell.
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Orwell was dealing with communism and his disillusionment with communism in Russia and what he saw the communists do in Spain. His…
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George Orwell famously described international sport as 'war minus the shooting'. But for all Orwell's greatness as a thinker, this was one…
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Orwell has always been a huge influence on me.
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People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but…
— Christopher Hitchens
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George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I'm 100 percent fiction writer... I don't want to write messages. I want to…
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