"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."
― George Orwell
Topic(s): War
― George Orwell
More From George Orwell
- "Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them."
- "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."
More In War
- "When I left to go into apprenticeship in 1949, it was only four years after the war, and people don’t realize, we still had tickets for butter, meat and so forth in France until 1947. It’s not like the end of the war, everything was plentiful – it wasn’t."― Jacques Pepin
- "And I’m a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That’s the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War."― Shelby Foote
- "There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult – to begin a war and to end it."― Alexis de Tocqueville