“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
A peace that was truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war. — 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
“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
“A not-too-distant explosion shakes the house, the windows rattle in their sockets, and in the next room the class of 1964 wakes… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“The Spaniards are good at many things, but not at making war. All foreigners are alike appalled by their inefficiency, above all… — 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
“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
To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Collectivism leads to concentration camps, leader worship and war.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“In theory at any rate each militia was a democracy and not a hierarchy . It was understood that orders had to… — 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
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
Winston could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war...war had literally been continuous, though strictly speaking… — 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
Before the war, and especially before the Boer War, it was summer all the year round. — 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 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
“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 Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Actually, as Winston well knew, it was only four years since Oceania had been at war with Eastasia and in alliance with… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The man who did the shouting at the P.S.U.C. post down on our right was an artist at the job. Sometimes, instead… — 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
