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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in wi...more

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The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

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Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the...more

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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

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The majority of pacifists either belong to obscure religious sects or are simply humanitarians who object to taking life and prefer not to follow thei...more

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We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

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There are occasions when it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all.

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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

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As for the problem of overproduction, which has been latent in our society since the development of the machine technique, it is solved by the device ...more

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Hitherto, the rights and wrongs had seemed so beautifully simple.

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The war is not meant to be won. It is meant to be continuous. The essential act of modern warfare is the destruction of the produce of human labour. A...more

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The dark-haired girl behind Winston had begun crying out: 'Swine! Swine! Swine!', and suddenly she picked up a heavy Newspeak dictionary and flung it ...more

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When it is necessary they can be prodded into frenzies of fear and hatred, but when left to themselves they are capable of forgetting for long periods...more

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War, it will be seen, is now a purely internal affair. In the past, the ruling groups of all countries, although they might recognize their common int...more

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...the object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war.