...the object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war. - George Orwell

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...the object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war.

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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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Birth Name: Eric Arthur Blair
Alternative Names: Orwell • Eric Blair • P. S. Burton • John Freeman
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From the proletarians nothing is to be feared. Left to themselves, they will continue from generation to generation and from century to century, working, breeding, and dying, not only without any impulse to rebel, but without the power of grasping that the world could be other than it is.
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