George Orwell

"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."

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Source: Looking Back on the Spanish War. Book by George Orwell, § 1, 1943.

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George Orwell

George Orwell

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George Orwell was a British writer known for his critiques of totalitarianism and social injustice, particularly in his works '1984' and 'Animal Farm'.

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