"War is a way of shattering to..." - Quote by George Orwell
War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.
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“We have become too civilized to grasp the obvious. For the truth is very simple. To survive you often have to fight, and to fight you have to dirty yourself. War is evil, and it is often the lesser evil. Those who take the sword perish by the sword, and those who don't take the sword perish by smelly diseases.”
“Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.”
“The most stirring battle-poem in English is about a brigade of cavalry which charged in the wrong direction.”
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“Many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing.”
“O, Men's vows are women's traitors! All good seeming, By thy revolt, O husband, shall be thought Put on for villainy, not born where't grows, But worn a bait for ladies.”
“What are friends? Friends are people you think are your friends but they really your enemies, with secret identities.”