Home » Quote » George Orwell » „One always abandons something in retreat. Look at Napoleon at the Beresina! He abandoned his whole army.“ „One always abandons something in retreat. Look at Napoleon at the Beresina! He abandoned his whole army.“ — George Orwell Related quotes „Everything I sought in life I abandoned for the sake of the search. I'm like one who absentmindedly looks for he doesn't know what, having forgotten it in his dreaming as the search got under way.“ — Fernando Pessoa „The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable.“ — H.L. Mencken „To me consensus seems to be—the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies in search of something in which no-one believes, but to which no-one objects.“ — Margaret Thatcher
„One always abandons something in retreat. Look at Napoleon at the Beresina! He abandoned his whole army.“ — George Orwell