“Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
Freedom“The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.”
War“Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
Freedom“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“The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.”
Time“The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.”
History“Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.”
Funny“The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.”
War“War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.”
War“War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.”
War“We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.”
Intelligence“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
Future“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“To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.”
War“No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.”
Truth“We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.”
Food“Oceania was at war with Eurasia therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.”
War“In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
Time“Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.”
Society“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”
Men“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“Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.”
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