Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.' Read More Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.' Read More Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.' Read More Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.' Read More Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.' Read More Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.' Read More Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.' Read More Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.' Read More Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.' Read More Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.' Read More Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.' Read More Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.' Read More Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.' Read More Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.' Read More Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.' Read More Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.' Read More Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.' Read More Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.' Read More Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'Good writing is like a windowpane.' Read More Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'Serious sport is war minus the shooting.' Read More Newer Posts Older Posts
Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.' Read More
Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.' Read More
Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.' Read More
Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.' Read More
Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.' Read More
Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.' Read More
Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.' Read More
Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.' Read More
Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.' Read More
Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.' Read More
Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.' Read More
Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.' Read More
Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.' Read More
Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.' Read More
Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.' Read More
Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.' Read More
Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.' Read More
Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.' Read More
Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'Serious sport is war minus the shooting.' Read More