George Orwell War Quotes


A dull decent people cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets. George Orwell War 119
War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil. George Orwell War 109
War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent. George Orwell War 107
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. George Orwell War 107
...the object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war. George Orwell War 97
The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. George Orwell War 85
Despotic governments can stand moral force till the cows come home what they fear is physical force. George Orwell War 60
There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction. George Orwell War 57
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. George Orwell War 53

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