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Quotes by George Orwell
- War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
- War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.
- War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.
- War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
- War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.
- We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
- We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
- We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
- Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
- Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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