Since pacifists have more freedom of action in countries where traces of democracy survive, pacifism can act more effectively against democracy than… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“In foreign politics many intellectuals follow the principle that any faction backed by Britain must be in the wrong. As a result,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The idea that you can somehow remain aloof from and superior to the struggle [World War II], while living on food which… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The majority of pacifists either belong to obscure religious sects or are simply humanitarians who object to taking life and prefer not… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Moreover [pacifists] do not as a rule condemn violence as such, but only violence used in defence of western countries” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The young officers who had come back [from WW1], hardened by their terrible experience and disgusted by the attitude of the younger… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“It is difficult to see how Gandhi's methods could be applied in a country where opponents of the regime disappear in the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We believe half-instinctively that evil always defeats itself in the long run. Pacifism is founded largely on this belief. Don't resist evil,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Creeds like pacifism or anarchism, which seem on the surface to imply a complete renunciation of power, rather encourage this habit of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“If [pacifists] imagine that one can somehow "overcome" the German army by lying on one's back, let them go on imagining it,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
