[...] antisemitism is rationalised by saying that the Jew is a person who spreads disaffection and weakens national morale. - George Orwell

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[...] antisemitism is rationalised by saying that the Jew is a person who spreads disaffection and weakens national morale.

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About George Orwell

George Orwell (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950) was the pen name of British novelist, essayist, and journalist Eric Arthur Blair, whose work is characterised by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and strong support of democratic socialism.

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Pen Names: John Freeman
Birth Name: Eric Arthur Blair
Alternative Names: Orwell • Eric Blair • P. S. Burton
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War damages, the fabric of civilisation not by the destruction it causes (the net effect of a war may even be to increase the productive capacity of the world as a whole) nor even by the slaughter of human beings, but by the stimulated hatred and dishonesty.
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One need not swallow such absurdities as this, but one ought to recognise that the present political chaos is connected with the decay of language, and that one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end. If you simplify your English, you are freed from the worst follies of orthodoxy.
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