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George Orwell Quotes about War - Page 2

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War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

Fear, War, Atheism

George Orwell (2016). “Animal Farm”, p.16, Hamilton Books

Records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth.

War, Lying, Drug

George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.31, Arcturus Publishing

People talk about the horrors of war, but what weapon has a man invented that even approaches in cruelty some of the commoner diseases? 'Natural' death, almost by defintion, means something slow, smelly and painful.

Life, Death, War

George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.238, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

War, Literature, Oceania

George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.135, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

As soon as you think of fishing you think of things that don't belong to the modern world. The very idea of sitting all day under a willow tree beside a quiet pool - and being able to find a quiet pool to sit beside- belongs to a time before the war, before radio, before aeroplanes, before Hitler.

War, Thinking, Lakes

George Orwell (1969). “Coming Up for Air”, p.93, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.

Peace, War, Intelligent

The war is waged against its own subjects and its object is not the victory...but to keep the very structure of society intact.

War, Victory, Structure

It was with the last revolution and the coming of INGSOC (Inglish/English Socialism) that the latest High learnt how to keep their position permanently - by cultivating ignorance among the other classes and by constantly surveying them through the Thought Police. Part of this strategy included the maintenance of a state of continual warfare, which Goldstein discussed in the third chapter. The three major powers were not fighting this perpetual war for victory; they were fighting to keep a state of emergency always present as the surest guarantee of authoritarianism.

War, Ignorance, Fighting

A hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance, this new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia but to keep the very structure of society intact.

War, Ignorance, Past

The organizing principal for any culture is War.

War, Culture, Principal

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

War, Civilization, Cities

1945 In the Observer, 8 Apr.

In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did not need a passport for any country except Russia.:; The European emigrant, if he could scrape together a few pounds for the passage, simply set sail for America or Australia, and when he got there no questions were asked.:; In the eighteenth century it had been quite normal and safe to travel in a country with which your own country was at war.

Country, War, America

George Orwell (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: As I please, 1943-1945”

In some ways she was far more acute than Winston, and far less susceptible to Party propaganda. Once when he happened in some connection to mention the war against Eurasia, she startled him by saying casually that in her opinion the war was not happening. The rocket bombs which fell daily on London were probably fired by the Government of Oceania itself, "just to keep the people frightened."

War, Party, Government

George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.335, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

Summer, Peace, War

1939 Coming Up For Air, pt.2, ch.1.

The very word 'war', therefore, has become misleading. It would probably be accurate to say that by becoming continuous war has ceased to exist. ... War is Peace.

War, Nineteen, Becoming

George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.431, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

A peace that was truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war.

Fear, War, Atheism

"1984".

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

Peace, War, Essentials

George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.283, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

...the consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable condition of survival.

War, Survival, Consciousness

George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.415, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of independent thought. There are therefore two great problems which the Party is concerned to solve. One is how to discover, against his will, what another human being is thinking, and the other is how to kill several hundred million people in a few seconds without giving warning beforehand.

War, Party, Independent

George Orwell (1976). “The Penguin complete novels of George Orwell”

During the first two months of the war it was the Anarchists more than anyone else who had saved the situation, and much later than this the Anarchist militia, in spite of their indiscipline, were notoriously the best fighters among the purely Spanish forces.

War, Two, Months

George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.66, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The result of this is that so-called peace propaganda is just as dishonest and intellectually disgusting as war propaganda. Like war propaganda, it concentrates on putting forward a ‘case’, obscuring the opponent’s point of view and avoiding awkward questions.

War, Views, Opponents

George Orwell (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: My country right or left, 1940-1943”

International football is the continuation of war by other means.

Soccer, Football, War

Bombing is not especially inhumane. War itself is inhumane and the bombing plane, which is used to paralyse industry and transport, is a relatively civilised weapon. 'Normal' or 'legitimate' warfare is just as destructive of inanimate objects and enormously so of human lives.

War, Historical, Inanimate Objects

George Orwell (2016). “Fifty Essays (George Orwell) (Literary Thoughts Edition)”, p.502, epubli

You must have seen great changes since you were a young man," said Winston tentatively. The old man's pale blue eyes moved from the darts board to the bar, and from the bar to the door of the Gents ... "The beer was better," he said finally. "And cheaper! When I was a young man, mild beer - wallop we used to call it - was fourpence a pint. That was before the war, of course." "Which war was that?" said Winston. "It's all wars," said the old man vaguely. He took up his glass, and his shoulders straightened again. "'Ere's wishing you the very best of 'ealth!

War, Eye, Beer

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.

War, Winning, Differences

George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.203, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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