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“Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.”

George Orwell · Happiness

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George Orwell

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.

Jealousy

George Orwell

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

War

George Orwell

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

War

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.

War