"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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War
― George Orwell
More From George Orwell
- "There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them."
- "The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor."
- "Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."
More In War
- "I’m not a real movie star. I’ve still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago."― Will Rogers
- "My grandfather was a general in the Nationalist Chinese Air Force during World War II, and I grew up hearing the pilot stories and seeing pictures of him in uniform."― Eric Liu
- "It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell."― William Tecumseh Sherman