Absolutes Quote by George Orwell

Winston Churchill could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war.

— George Orwell

“Actually, as Winston well knew, it was only four years since Oceania had been at war with Eastasia and in alliance with Eurasia. But…

— George Orwell

“Since that time, war had literally been continuous, though strictly speaking it had not always been the same war.”

— George Orwell

“The memory of war was fading into the past as a nightmare vanishes with the dawn; soon it would lie outside the experience of…

— Arthur C Clarke

“To those who fought World War II, it was plain enough that Allied bombs were killing huge numbers of German civilians, that Churchill was…

— Adam Kirsch

“In one great case a man [Winston Churchill] who had been considered too brilliant and too reckless ever to be trusted with major office…

— Graham Greene

Foyles War made me realise that Churchill actually had questionable morals; his decisions meant that good people died. It must have weighed heavily on…

— Honeysuckle Weeks

WWII was, without exaggeration, the biggest event in all of human history, and it is still within living memory.

— Chris Cleave

And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale.

— Anonymous

History's villains are more easily recognized in retrospect. In an article published in 1935 and reprinted in 1937, Winston Churchill expressed a curious ambivalence…

— Winston Churchill

History is remembered by its art, not its war machines.

— James Rosenquist

“Winston Churchill wrote afterwards: 'No part of the Great War compares in interest with its opening. The measured, silent drawing together of gigantic forces,…

— Max Hastings