“The tank, the submarine, the torpedo, the machine-gun, even the rifle and the hand grenade are still in use.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
...the object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Preventive war is a crime not easily committed by a country that retains any traces of democracy. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Winston Churchill could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“The war is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The very word 'war', therefore, has become misleading. It would probably be accurate to say that by becoming continuous war has ceased… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“[Football] has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
And in the general hardening of outlook that set in ... practices which had been long abandoned ... -- imprisonment without trial,… — 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 the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Housman would not have appealed so deeply to the people who were young in 1920 if it had not been for another… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The problem was how to keep the wheels of industry turning without increasing the real wealth of the world. Goods must be… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The problem was how to keep the wheels of industry turning without increasing the real wealth of the world. Goods must be… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
...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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Officially the change of partners had never happened. Oceania was at war with Eurasia: therefore Oceania had always been at war with… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The fact is that every war suffers a kind of progressive degradation with every month that it continues, because such things as… — 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
“Since that time, war had literally been continuous, though strictly speaking it had not always been the same war.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“I can see the war that’s coming and I can see the after-war, the food-queues and the secret police and the loudspeakers… — 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
“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
“It was merely an a few words of encouragement, the sort of words that are uttered in the din of battle, not… — 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
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
“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
“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
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
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
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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