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
“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 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
Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“I have no particular love for the idealized “worker” as he appears in the bourgeois Communist’s mind, but when I see an… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Old Porteous’s mind, I thought, probably stopped working at about the time of the Russo-Japanese war. And it’s a ghastly thing that… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In some ways she was far more acute than Winston, and far less susceptible to Party propaganda. Once when he happened in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
You must have seen great changes since you were a young man," said Winston tentatively. The old man's pale blue eyes moved… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance, this new version is the past and no different… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The war, therefore, if we judge it by the standards of previous wars, is merely an imposture. It is like the battles… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We have become too civilized to grasp the obvious. For the truth is very simple. To survive you often have to fight,… — 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 choice before human beings, is not, as a rule , between good and evil but between two evils. You can let… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
During the first two months of the war it was the Anarchists more than anyone else who had saved the situation, and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The people who write that kind of stuff never fight; possibly they believe that to write it is a substitute for fighting.… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all… — 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
Bombing is not especially inhumane. War itself is inhumane and the bombing plane, which is used to paralyse industry and transport, is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death, but I think now,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“To these people the war is simply a continuous calamity which sweeps to and fro over their bodies like a tidal wave.… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“In past ages, a war, almost by definition, was something that sooner or later came to an end, usually in unmistakable victory… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“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 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
The energy that actually shapes the world springs from emotions - racial pride, leader-worship, religious belief, love of war - which liberal… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The Ministry of Truth, which concerned itself with news, entertainment, education and fine arts. The Ministry of Peace, which concerned itself with… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“It was like an allegorical picture of war; the trainload of fresh men gliding proudly up the line, the maimed men sliding… — 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
“Everywhere there is the same pyramidal structure, the same worship of semi-divine leader, the same economy existing by and for continuous warfare.… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“It's not a matter of whether the war is not real, or if it is, Victory is not possible. The war is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“I suppose there hasn’t been a single month since the war, in any trade you care to name, in which there weren’t… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“It is Sunday afternoon, preferably before the war. The wife is already asleep in the armchair, and the children have been sent… — 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
“They laid me down again while somebody fetched a stretcher. As soon as I knew that the bullet had gone clean through… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The men who were well enough to stand had moved across the carriage to cheer the Italians as they went past. A… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“In our own day they are not fighting against one another at all. The war is waged by each ruling group against… — 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
It was with the last revolution and the coming of INGSOC (Inglish/English Socialism) that the latest High learnt how to keep their… — 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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