Ultimately it is the Christian attitude which is self-interested and hedonistic, since the aim is always to get away from the painful struggle of earthly life and find eternal peace in some kind of Heaven or Nirvana. The humanist attitude is that the struggle must continue and that death is the price of life. George Orwell
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  3. The same Sermon on the Mount that influenced Tolstoy to write “The Kingdom of God is Within You”, inspired me to a great extent in my work “Principia Humanitas”. - Abhijit Naskar
  4. Only a handful of individuals in human history can be truly hailed as Christians, such as Tolstoy, Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Rumi, Martin Luther King Jr. and a few others. - Abhijit Naskar
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More Quotes By George Orwell
  1. Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.
  2. At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
  3. This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.
  4. Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
  5. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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