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.
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In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
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War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.
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Before the war, and especially before the Boer War, it was summer all the year round.
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Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
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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.
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All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
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