“Then the face of Big Brother faded away again and instead the three slogans of the Party stood out in bold capitals:… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“And at the same time the consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing-over of all power to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
People talk about the horrors of war, but what weapon has a man invented that even approaches in cruelty some of the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The English are not happy unless they are miserable, the Irish are not at peace unless they are at war, and the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Since that time, war had literally been continuous, though strictly speaking it had not always been the same war.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“In trench warfare five things are important: firewood, food, tobacco, candles, and the enemy. In winter on the Zaragoza front they were… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The war is waged against its own subjects and its object is not the victory...but to keep the very structure of society… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The result of this is that so-called peace propaganda is just as dishonest and intellectually disgusting as war propaganda. Like war propaganda,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“When are we going to attack? Why don’t we attack?’ were the questions you heard night and day from Spaniard and Englishman… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“In our own day they are not fighting against one another at all. The war is waged by each ruling group against… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking into the depths of the sea, materials… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“To these people the war is simply a continuous calamity which sweeps to and fro over their bodies like a tidal wave.… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“In past ages, a war, almost by definition, was something that sooner or later came to an end, usually in unmistakable victory… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“One of the most horrible features of war is that all the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The primary aim of modern warfare ... is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“It's not a matter of whether the war is not real, or if it is, Victory is not possible. The war is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share
It was given out that the animals there practised cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common. This was… — George Orwell Copy Share
“The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running… — George Orwell Copy Share
He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the… — George Orwell Copy Share
“if you took 1 Corinthians, chapter thirteen, and in every verse wrote 'money' instead of 'charity', the chapter had ten times as much meaning… — George Orwell Copy Share
And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became… — George Orwell Copy Share
“Whitman himself "accepted" a great deal that his contemporaries found unmentionable. For he is not only writing of the prairie, he also wanders through… — George Orwell Copy Share
“But I tell you, Winston, that reality is not external. Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Whatever the Party holds to… — George Orwell Copy Share
“And the people under the sky were also very much the same...everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just… — George Orwell Copy Share
Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally… — George Orwell Copy Share
Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly. — George Orwell Copy Share
“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to… — George Orwell Copy Share
And the bigger the fall, the bigger the joke. It would be better fun to throw a custard pie at a bishop than at… — George Orwell Copy Share
“Any writer or journalist who wants to retain his integrity finds himself thwarted by the general drift of society rather than by active persecution.… — George Orwell Copy Share
