If you had asked me why I had joined the militia I should have answered: "To fight against Fascism," and if you had asked me what I was fighting for, I should have answered: "Common decency."

Homage to Catalonia

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Orwell, George. Homage to Catalonia. Secker and Warburg, 1938, ch. 5.

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