George Orwell

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George Orwell

George Orwell (June 25, 1903 – January 21, 1950) was an English writer and professor. He is most famous for the novels Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm.

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  • "All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting."[1]
Simple: All the lies and hate during a war, are usually said by the people who are not fighting.
  • "Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper."[2]
Simple: When I was young I saw that newspapers never tell the whole truth about an event.
  • "We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm."[3]
Simple: People are not scared at night because the army are ready to hurt the people who might want to hurt us.

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  1. ↑ "George Orwell quotes". Retrieved on November 16, 2008
  2. ↑ "The First Casualty". Google Books. Retrieved on November 19, 2008
  3. ↑ "George Orwell quotations". Retrieved on November 16, 2008

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