George Orwell Quotes About Violence

Quotes about: Violence

• Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

  George Orwell

  Jealousy, Sports, War

  "The Sporting Spirit" (1945)

• 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.

  George Orwell

  War, Dirty, Fighting

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

• Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.

  George Orwell

  Violence, Behalf, Can Do

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: I belong to the Left: 1945”

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