"The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor."
― George Orwell
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War
― George Orwell
More From George Orwell
- "Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship."
- "Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child’s eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below."
- "Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception."
More In War
- "The issue of Palestine has been there since more than 60 years. But more important since 1967 when the war was, ended in the defeat of some Arab countries."― Al-Waleed bin Talal
- "What a country calls its vital… interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war."― Simone Weil
- "There aren’t a lot of guys like me left. But I’m a war horse. I’ve been through it all. And you know something about war horses? Through the sleet, through the snow, they just keep going."― Joel Silver