"[T]he outcry against killing women, if you..." - Quote by George Orwell
[T]he outcry against killing women, if you accept killing at all, is sheer sentimentality.:; Why is it worse to kill a woman than a man?
More by George Orwell
“We may be together for another six months—a year—there’s no knowing. At the end we’re certain to be apart. Do you realize how utterly alone we shall be?”
“Is not anyone with any degree of mental honesty conscious of telling lies all day long, both in talking and writing, simply because lies will fall into artistic shape when truth will not?”
“The upper class desire to remain so, the middle class wish to overthrow the upper class, and the lower class want a classless system.”
More on Equality
“Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.”
“No human being can be more human than another human being. I liberate you from my ignorance.”
“Compassion can be put into practice if one recognizes the fact that every human being is a member of humanity and the human family regardless of differences in religion, culture, color and creed. Deep down there is no difference.”
More on Violence
“Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.”
“I don't mean go out and get violent; but at the same time you should never be nonviolent unless you run into some nonviolence. I'm nonviolent with those who are nonviolent with me. But when you drop that violence on me, then you've made me go insane, and I'm not responsible for what I do.”
“Continuously, we have to fight to defeat the primitive tendency towards the glorification of arms, the adulation of force, born of the illusion that injustice can be perpetuated by the capacity to kill, or that disputes are necessarily best resolved by resort to violent means.”