The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
Quote by George Orwell
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The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
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George Orwell Quotes
- We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
- 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.
- We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
- Oceania was at war with Eurasia therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.
- War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
- In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
- Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.
- I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
- If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
- If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?
Best Quotes
- Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
- Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress but I repeat myself.
- Genius is eternal patience.
- No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
- No great thing is created suddenly.
- Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
- She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
- You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
- My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure.
- Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.