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War Quotes by George Orwell
- International football is the continuation of war by other means.
- The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
- The war is waged against its own subjects and its object is not the victory...but to keep the very structure of society intact.
- To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armour, the apostles of martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when time comes. History is full…
- A peace that is truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war.
- Records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth.
- The fact is that every war suffers a kind of progressive degradation with every month that it continues, because such things as individual liberty and…
- People talk about the horrors of war, but what weapon has a man invented that even approaches in cruelty some of the commoner diseases? 'Natural'…
- The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of…
- It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a…
- You must have seen great changes since you were a young man," said Winston tentatively. The old man's pale blue eyes moved from the darts…
- Bombing is not especially inhumane. War itself is inhumane and the bombing plane, which is used to paralyse industry and transport, is a relatively civilised…
- The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. War is a way of shattering…
- During the first two months of the war it was the Anarchists more than anyone else who had saved the situation, and much later than…
- It was with the last revolution and the coming of INGSOC (Inglish/English Socialism) that the latest High learnt how to keep their position permanently -…
- The English are not happy unless they are miserable, the Irish are not at peace unless they are at war, and the Scots are not…
- In some ways she was far more acute than Winston, and far less susceptible to Party propaganda. Once when he happened in some connection to…
- Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
- War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
- War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
- All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
- Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in…
- Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
- War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.
- The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
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- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have… — Karen Armstrong
- These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of… — William Henry Ashley
- Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. — Isaac Asimov
- John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only… — Isaac Asimov
- We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents… — Julian Assange
- What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can it tend… — Julian Assange
- War is what happens when language fails. — Margaret Atwood