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

George Orwell
Peace, War, Essentials
George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.283, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.