George Orwell on Friendship
Browse 6 quotations attributed to George Orwell, catalogued under friendship, with dates where available.
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Attributed to George Orwell, entry #18141: "The essential job is to get people to recognise war propaganda when they see it, especially when it is disguised as peace propaganda."
Attributed to George Orwell, entry #96614: "Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip, but the really well-trained dog is the one that turns his somersault when there is no whip."
6 Quotes by George Orwell on Friendship
"The essential job is to get people to recognise war propaganda when they see it, especially when it is disguised as peace propaganda."
"Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip, but the really well-trained dog is the one that turns his somersault when there is no whip."
"Their friendship was at an end, it seemed to him. The evil time when he had lived on Ravelston had spoiled everything. Charity kills friendship."
"Why is it that one can't borrow from a rich friend and can from a half-starved relative?"
"Actually there is little acute hatred of Germany left in this country, and even less, I should expect to find, in the army of occupation. Only the minority of sadists, who must have their "atrocities" from one source or another, take a keen interest in the hunting-down of war criminals and quislings."
"From Carlyle onwards, but especially in the last generation, the British intelligentsia have tended to take their ideas from Europe and have been infected by habits of thought that derive ultimately from Machiavelli. All the cults that have been fashionable in the last dozen years, Communism, Fascism, and pacifism, are in the last analysis forms of power worship."