Quote by George Orwell
There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no differe

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. – George Orwell

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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between ones real and ones declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. – George Orwell

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Oceania was at war with Eurasia therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia. – George Orwell

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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. – George Orwell

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A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over… is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people. – Ezra Pound

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Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. – Ernest Hemingway

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As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another. – John Stuart Mill

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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. – Hannah Arendt

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We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves. – Leo Buscaglia

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