“As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.”

— George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius

The Lion and the Unicorn (1941), Part I: England Your England http://www.k-1.com/Orwell/index.cgi/work/essays/lionunicorn.html <br class="br">"The Lion and the Unicorn" (1941) <br class="br">Source: The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius <br class="br">Context: As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.<br>They do not feel any enmity against me as an individual, nor I against them. They are ‘only doing their duty’, as the saying goes. Most of them, I have no doubt, are kind-hearted law-abiding men who would never dream of committing murder in private life.

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