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

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

George Orwell
Peace, Military, War
Polemic May 1946 "Second Thoughts on James Burnham"

We believe half-instinctively that evil always defeats itself in the long run. Pacifism is founded largely on this belief. Don't resist evil, and it will somehow destroy itself. But why should it? What evidence is there that it does... unless conquered from the outside by military force?

George Orwell
Running, Military, Believe
George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.174, HMH

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 a truthful press are simply not compatible with military efficiency.

George Orwell
Military, War, Suffering
George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.190, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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 of ignominious getaways by the great and famous.

George Orwell
Military, War, Fighting
George Orwell (1998). “Two wasted years, 1943”, Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd

Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxwork displays, film shows, telescreen programs all had to be organized; stands had to be erected, effigies built, slogans coined, songs written, rumours circulated, photographs faked.

George Orwell
Song, Military, Lectures
George Orwell (2003). “1984”, Plume Books

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