War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
George Orwell
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More quotes by George Orwell
- In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
- Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
- The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
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