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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

George Orwell
Winning, Achievement, Corrupt Power
George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: Smothered under journalism, 1946”

Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

George Orwell
War, Winning, Power
George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: Smothered under journalism, 1946”

In this game that we're playing, we can't win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that's all.

George Orwell
Failure, Winning, Games
George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.231, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

[What Hayek] does not see, or will not admit, [is] that a return to "free" competition means for the great mass of people a tyranny probably worse, because more irresponsible, than that of the State. The trouble with competitions is that somebody wins them. Professor Hayek denies that free capitalism necessarily leads to monopoly, but in practice that is where it has led, and since the vast majority of people would far rather have State regimentation than slumps and unemployment, the drift towards collectivism is bound to continue if popular opinion has any say in the matter.

George Orwell
Mean, Winning, Practice
George Orwell (2003). “Orwell: The Observer Years”, Atlantic Books (UK)

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

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