Quotulatiousness

August 17, 2020

QotD: Orwell and faith

Filed under: Quotations, Religion — Tags: , — Nicholas @ 01:00

I spent a day with Orwell just before he died. I sat on his sanatorium bed, tried to smoke the frightful cigarettes he insisted on making for himself. I heard him say: “The problem of the world is this: Can we get men to behave decently to each other if they no longer believe in God?”

Charles Curran, “Orwell: The man behind 1984 — and all that”, Daily Mirror, 1954-12-14.

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