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
- The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
- In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
- Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
- I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
- We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
- On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
- Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
- A family with the wrong members in control that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.
- We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
- Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
Best Quotes
- Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.
- Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
- Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
- There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
- One must work and dare if one really wants to live.
- Dreams are necessary to life.
- But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity.
- We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.
- Our last jam session was this past Christmas. Dad played his harmonica, mom sang in English and Italian, and I played guitar. I'm so happy that we could share that musical experience for one last time.
- I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.