“He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.”
God“The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.”
War“He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.”
God“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“As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.”
Religion“I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.”
Education“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
Power“Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.”
Society“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“There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.”
Intelligence“The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.”
Time“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“War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.”
Good“A family with the wrong members in control that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.”
Family“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“The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.”
War“We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.”
Food“No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.”
Truth“Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.”
Patriotism“We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.”
Intelligence“To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.”
War“Happiness can exist only in acceptance.”
Happiness