War is evil but it is often the lesser evil.
The essential act of war is destruction not necessarily of human lives but...
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
Oceania was at war with Eurasia therefore Oceania had always been at war with...
War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be...
There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who...
Serious sport is war minus the shooting.
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think...
Every war when it comes or before it comes is represented not as a war but...
To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about...
No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were...
For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than...
The intellectual is different from the ordinary man but only in certain...
In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the...
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it...
As with the Christian religion the worst advertisement for Socialism is its...
Power is not a means it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in...
Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's...
If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary...
Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred and always stronger than...
Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.
This film business perhaps more so in America than in Europe has always been about young sexuality. It's not true of theatre but in America film audiences are young. It's not an intellectual cinema in America.
