"As I write, highly civilized human beings..." - Quote by George Orwell

“Serious sport is war minus the shooting.”

“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 planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at almost no cost and with almost no trouble, and if the tree takes root it will far outlive the visible effect of any of your other actions, good or evil.”

“Marriage is the beginning and pinnacle of civilization.”

“[A] world in which it is wrong to murder an individual civilian and right to drop a thousand tons of high explosive on a residential area does sometimes make me wonder whether this earth of ours is not a loony bin made use of by some other planet. Not to have a national anthem would be logical.”

“The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.”

“What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.”

“Think of strangers as friends you not met yet.”

“To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.”