“Serious sport is war minus the shooting.”
War“Serious sport is war minus the shooting.”
War“Serious sport is war minus the shooting.”
War“It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.”
Fear“Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.”
Patriotism“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.”
Great“Good writing is like a windowpane.”
Good“Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.”
Power“Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.”
Power“Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.”
Age“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.”
War“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“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”
Men“In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.”
Time“Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.”
Happiness“Oceania was at war with Eurasia therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.”
War“Liberal: a power worshipper without power.”
Power“All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.”
Future“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
Power“We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.”
Food“Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.”
Good“No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.”
Truth