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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

Country, Money, War

George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: Facing unpleasant facts, 1937-1939”

England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. In left-wing circles it is always felt that there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a duty to snigger at every English institution, from horse racing to suet puddings. It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during God save the King than of stealing from a poor box.

Country, Horse, Kings

George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.275, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly.

Country, Silly, Land

George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.124, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

All left-wing parties in the highly industrialized countries are at bottom a sham, because they make it their business to fight against something which they do not really wish to destroy. They have internationalist aims, and at the same time they struggle to keep up a standard of life with which those aims are incompatible. We all live by robbing Asiatic coolies, and those of us who are 'enlightened' all maintain that those coolies ought to be set free; but our standard of living, and hence our 'enlightenment,' demands that the robbery shall continue.

Country, Struggle, Party

George Orwell (1956). “The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays, and Reportage”, New York : Harcourt, Brace

The relative freedom which we enjoy depends of public opinion. The law is no protection. Governments make laws, but whether they are carried out, and how the police behave, depends on the general temper in the country. If large numbers of people are interested in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it; if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them.

Country, Freedom, Law

George Orwell (2016). “Fifty Essays (George Orwell) (Literary Thoughts Edition)”, p.501, epubli

To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.

Country, Doe, Totalitarianism

George Orwell (1986). “The complete works of George Orwell”

In this country, intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face ... Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and incovenient facts kept dark, without the need for any official ban ... At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of iedas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.

Country, Dark, Thinking

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.

Country, Political, Democracy

George Orwell (1968). “The collected essays, journalism, and letters of George Orwell”

Preventive war is a crime not easily committed by a country that retains any traces of democracy.

Country, War, Democracy

George Orwell, Peter Hobley Davison, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “It is what I think: 1947-1948”

Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country.

Country, Civilization, Tea Drinking

George Orwell (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: As I please, 1943-1945”

England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality.

Country, England, Ashamed

George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.275, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

If publishers and editors exert themselves to keep certain topics out of print, it is not because they are frightened of prosecution but because they are frightened of public opinion. In this country intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face, and that fact does not seem to me to have had the discussion it deserves.

Country, Worst Enemy, Editors

George Orwell (2009). “Animal Farm: A Fairy Story”, p.206, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false map of the world, a series of fabulous countries into which one can retreat at odd moments throughout the rest of life, and which in some cases can survive a visit to the real countries which they are supposed to represent.

Country, Real, Book

George Orwell (1953). “Shooting an Elephant: And Other Essays”

While the game of deadlocks and bottle-necks goes on, another more serious game is also being played. It is governed by two axioms. One is that there can be no peace without a general surrender of sovereignty: the other is that no country capable of defending its sovereignty ever surrenders it. If one keeps these axioms in mind one can generally see the relevant facts in international affairs through the smoke-screen with which the newspapers surround them.

Country, Games, Two

George Orwell (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell: In front of your nose, 1945-1950”

In my opinion, nothing has contributed so much to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country and that every act of its rulers must be excused, if not imitated. And so for the last ten years, I have been convinced that the destruction of the Soviet myth was essential if we wanted a revival of the socialist movement.

Country, Russia, Socialist Countries

George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “It is what I think, 1947-1948”, Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd

In my opinion nothing has contributed more to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country.

Country, Philosophy, Russia

George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “It is what I think, 1947-1948”, Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd

Since pacifists have more freedom of action in countries where traces of democracy survive, pacifism can act more effectively against democracy than for it. Objectively the pacifist is pro-Nazi.

Country, Democracy, Action

George Orwell (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.171, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did not need a passport for any country except Russia.:; The European emigrant, if he could scrape together a few pounds for the passage, simply set sail for America or Australia, and when he got there no questions were asked.:; In the eighteenth century it had been quite normal and safe to travel in a country with which your own country was at war.

Country, War, America

George Orwell (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: As I please, 1943-1945”

In so far as it takes effect at all, pacifist propaganda can only be effective against those countries where a certain amount of freedom of speech is still permitted; in other words it is helpful to totalitarianism.

Country, Freedom Of Speech, Helpful

George Orwell (1998). “The complete works of George Orwell”

I would sooner be a foreigner in Spain than in most countries. How easy it is to make friends in Spain!

Country, Spain, Easy

George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Except for the small revolutionary groups which exist in all countries, the whole world was determined upon preventing revolution in Spain. In particular the Communist Party, with Soviet Russia behind it, had thrown its whole weight against the revolution. It was the Communist thesis that revolution at this stage would be fatal and that what was to be aimed at in Spain was not workers' control, but bourgeois democracy. It hardly needs pointing out why 'liberal' capitalist opinion took the same line.

Country, Party, Russia

George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Winston Churchill could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war.

Country, War, Remember

Winston could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war...war had literally been continuous, though strictly speaking it had not always been the same war. The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil.

Country, War, Evil

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