War Quotes by George Orwell

“War is Peace”

— George Orwell

“This is war! Isn't it bloody?”

— George Orwell

“War was a sure safeguard of sanity,”

— George Orwell

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

— George Orwell

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

— George Orwell

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

— George Orwell

“The war and the revolution are inseparable.”

— George Orwell

The organizing principal for any culture is War.

— George Orwell

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

— George Orwell

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

— George Orwell

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

— George Orwell

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

— George Orwell

“Collectivism leads to concentration camps, leader worship and war.”

— George Orwell

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

— George Orwell

“A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets.”

— George Orwell

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

— George Orwell

International football is the continuation of war by other means.

— George Orwell

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

— George Orwell

“[Football] has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic…

— George Orwell

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

— George Orwell

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

— George Orwell

“Officially the change of partners had never happened. Oceania was at war with Eurasia: therefore Oceania had always been at war with…

— George Orwell

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

— George Orwell

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

— George Orwell

“I dreamed I dwelt in marble halls, And woke to find it true; I wasn't born for an age like this; Was…

— George Orwell

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

— George Orwell

“The idea that you can somehow remain aloof from and superior to the struggle [World War II], while living on food which…

— George Orwell

The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule , between good and evil but between two evils. You can let…

— George Orwell

During the first two months of the war it was the Anarchists more than anyone else who had saved the situation, and…

— George Orwell

“The people who write that kind of stuff never fight; possibly they believe that to write it is a substitute for fighting.…

— George Orwell

“Moreover, the labor of the exploited peoples round the Equator is not really necessary to the world's economy. They add nothing to…

— George Orwell

“You may not understand this, but I don't think it matters killing people so long as you don't hate them. I also…

— George Orwell

“The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all…

— George Orwell

“WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY”

— George Orwell

“Hitherto, the rights and wrongs had seemed so beautifully simple.”

— George Orwell

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

— George Orwell

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

— George Orwell

Preventive war is a crime not easily committed by a country that retains any traces of democracy.

— George Orwell

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

— George Orwell

Records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth.

— George Orwell