George Orwell:

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.

— George Orwell Modern

1984, Animal Farm

Context

The Sporting Spirit

Date / Period

1945

Source

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Explanation

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