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

George Orwell

War

Ending

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

George Orwell

Ideas

Wrong

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.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.

George Orwell

Fight

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

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

George Orwell

War

Evil

The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth.

George Orwell

Idea

Day

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.

George Orwell

Battle

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.