Quote by George Orwell
War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might othe

War is a way of shattering to pieces… materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and… too intelligent. – George Orwell

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Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie… a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion. – George Orwell

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We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun. – George Orwell

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War can be so impersonal yet when we put a name, a face, a place and match it to families, then war is not impersonal. – Dennis Kucinich

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Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy. – J. B. Priestley

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The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy. – Ramsey Clark

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My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war. It might sound stupid and it might even sound naive, but thats just the way it is. – Thom Yorke

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