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Peace Quotes by George Orwell

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George Orwell examines war as a constant, often hidden force that shapes societies. He points out that war can be an internal struggle and that pacifism is possible only if we accept its costs. He also describes war’s essential act as destruction, not just of lives but of human creations.

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“War is Peace”

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“This is war! Isn't it bloody?”

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“War was a sure safeguard of sanity,”

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War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

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War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

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“WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY”

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The organizing principal for any culture is War.

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The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

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“It is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous...to keep the very structure of society intact.”

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A peace that was truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war.

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One always abandons something in retreat. Look at Napoleon at the Beresina! He abandoned his whole army.

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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

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A peace that is truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war.

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“Pacifism is a tenable position, provided that you are prepared to live with the consequences.”

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“When war is continuous there is no such thing as military necessity. Technical”

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Before the war, and especially before the Boer War, it was summer all the year round.

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Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against…

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“The war is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make…

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The very word 'war', therefore, has become misleading. It would probably be accurate to say that by becoming continuous war has ceased…

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...the consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the…

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“Perhaps when the next Great War comes we may see that sight unprecedented in all history, a jingo with a bullet-hole in…

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There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands…

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The fact is that every war suffers a kind of progressive degradation with every month that it continues, because such things as…

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It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever…

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“The war, therefore, if we judge it by the standards of previous wars, is merely an imposture. It is like the battles…

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A hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance, this new version is the past and no different…

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“The problem was how to keep the wheels of industry turning without increasing the real wealth of the world. Goods must be…

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For after all, what is there behind, except money? Money for the right kind of education, money for influential friends, money for…

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We have become too civilized to grasp the obvious. For the truth is very simple. To survive you often have to fight,…

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“The war, therefore if we judge it by the standards of previous wars, is merely an imposture. It is like the battles…

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“War, it will be seen, is now a purely internal affair. In the past, the ruling groups of all countries, although they…

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“The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a…

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...the object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war.

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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

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“War, it will be seen, is now a purely internal affair.”

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The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.

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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

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All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

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“War, for all its evil, is at any rate an unanswerable test of strength, like a try-your-grip machine. Great strength returns the…

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