George Orwell Quotes About Peace

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  • 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's review of the book "The Men I Killed" by Brigadier-General F. P. Crozier in "New Statesman and Nation", August 28, 1937.
  • In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

  • The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

    Polemic May 1946 "Second Thoughts on James Burnham"
  • War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.

  • Before the war, and especially before the Boer War, it was summer all the year round.

    1939 Coming Up For Air, pt.2, ch.1.
  • Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

    "Politics and the English Language" (1946)
  • Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

    Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 1, ch. 3 (1949) See Orwell 19
  • War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

    Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 1, ch. 1 (1949)
  • The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

    George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.283, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

    George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: I belong to the Left: 1945”
  • All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

    George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.69, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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