Quotes by George Orwell with war

George Orwell

George Orwell

English writer (ps. of Eric Blair)

Lived from: 1903 - 1950

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 25 june 1903 Died: 21 january 1950

  • In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.
  • I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.
  • When a woman's bumped off, her husband is always the first suspect - which gives you a little side glimpse of what people really think about marriage.
  • Progress and reaction have both turned out to be swindles. Seemingly, there is nothing left but quietism - robbing reality of its terrors by simply submitting to it.
  • Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.
  • If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?
  • The human beings did not hate Animal Farm any less now that it was prospering; indeed, they hated it more than ever.
  • All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.
  • In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
  • One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.
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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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  • 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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  • Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.
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  • Serious sport is war minus the shooting.
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  • The English are not happy unless they are miserable, the Irish are not at peace unless they are at war, and the Scots are not at home unless they are abroad.
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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 quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
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  • The quickest way to end a war is to lose it.
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  • There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.
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  • To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armor, the apostles of the martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when the time comes. History is full of ignominious getaways by the great and famous.
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  • War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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  • War is peace,
    Freedom is slavery,
    Ignorance is strength.
    1984
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  • War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.
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What are the most famous quotes from George Orwell?

The two most famous quotes from George Orwell are:

  • "All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
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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."

When did George Orwell live?

George Orwell was born in 1903 and died in the year 1950.