War Quotes by George Orwell

“War is Peace”

— George Orwell

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

— 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

“This is war! Isn't it bloody?”

— George Orwell

“WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY”

— 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

“The war and the revolution are inseparable.”

— 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

“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

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

Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the…

— George Orwell

“The past was alterable. The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war…

— George Orwell

When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself…

— George Orwell

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

— George Orwell

“The Spaniards are good at many things, but not at making war. All foreigners are alike appalled by their inefficiency, above all…

— George Orwell

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

— George Orwell

To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armor, the apostles of the martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when the…

— George Orwell

From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans…

— George Orwell

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

— George Orwell

As soon as you think of fishing you think of things that don't belong to the modern world. The very idea of…

— George Orwell

“Glory of war, indeed! In war, all soldiers are lousy, at least when it is warm enough. The men who fought at…

— George Orwell

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

— George Orwell

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

— George Orwell

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

— George Orwell

“She did not understand that there was no such thing as happiness, that the only victory lay in the far future, long…

— George Orwell

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

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

— George Orwell

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

— George Orwell

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

— George Orwell

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

— George Orwell

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

— George Orwell

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

— George Orwell

“There are occasions when it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all.”

— George Orwell