My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.

If something is said about the Raiders, I'm ready to go to war.

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

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

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.

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

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.

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

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

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

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

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

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