Quotes About War

The war had jerked me out of the old life I'd known, but in the queer period that came afterwards I forgot it almost completely.

La guerra es la guerra. El único ser humano bueno es el que ha muerto.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent. Even

Georges Kopp, on his periodical tours of inspection, was quite frank with us. 'This is not a war,' he used to say, 'it is a comic opera with an occasional death.

Collectivism leads to concentration camps, leader worship and war.

I thought it idiotic that people fighting for their lives should have separate parties

You may not understand this, but I don't think it matters killing people so long as you don't hate them. I also think that there are times when you can only show your feeling of brotherhood for someone else by killing him, or trying to. I believe most ordinary people feel this and would make a peace in that sense if they had any say in the matter. There has been very little popular resistance to this war, and also very little hatred. It is a job that has to be done.

This war is a racket the same as any other.

The trade union members who formed themselves into militias and chased the Fascists back to Saragossa in the first few weeks of war had done so largely because they believed themselves to be fighting for working-class control; but it was becoming more and more obvious that working-class control was a lost cause, and the common people, especially the town proletariat, who have to fill the ranks in any war, civil or foreign, could not be blamed for a certain apathy.

There were two facts that were the keynote of all else. One was that the people—the civil population—had lost much of their interest in the war; the other was that the normal division of society into rich and poor, upper class and lower class, was reasserting itself.

Scopo essenziale della guerra è la distruzione, non necessariamente di vite umane, ma di quanto viene prodotto dal lavoro degli uomini. La guerra è un modo per mandare in frantumi, scaraventare nella stratosfera, affondare negli abissi marini, materiali che altrimenti potrebbero essere usati per rendere le masse troppo agiate e, a lungo andare, troppo intelligenti.

The Ministry of Truth, which concerned itself with news, entertainment, education, and the fine arts. The Ministry of Peace, which concerned itself with war. The Ministry of Love, which maintained law and order. And the Ministry of Plenty, which was responsible for economic affairs.

and reviving that pernicious feeling, so difficult to get rid of, that war is glorious after all.

Bu kapitalist bir sava? ve Britanya emperyalizmi ya?ma u?runa sava??yor diye s?zlanan solcular?n kafas? geriye bakacak ?ekilde vidalanm??.

It was not merely that the sex instinct created a world of its own which was outside the Party's control and which therefore had to be destroyed if possible. What was more important was that sexual privation induced hysteria, which was desirable because it could be transformed into war fever and leader worship.

The war, therefore, if we judge it by the standards of previous wars, is merely an imposture. It is like the battles between certain ruminant animals whose horns are set at such an angle that they are incapable of hurting one another. But though it is unreal it is not meaningless. It eats up the surplus of consumable goods, and it helps to preserve the special mental atmosphere that a hierarchical society needs.

La guerra faceva da garante all'integrità mentale. Anzi, se si prendono in considerazione le classi dirigenti, costituiva la forma di garanzia più solida. Fino a quando le guerre potevano essere vinte o perdute, nessuna classe dirigente poteva ritenersi totalmente irresponsabile degli avvenimenti. Quando, però, diventa letteralmente continua, la guerra cessa anche di essere pericolosa.

But when war becomes literally continuous, it also ceases to be dangerous. When war is continuous there is no such thing as military necessity. Technical progress can cease and the most palpable facts can be denied or disregarded.

is in the ranks of the Party, and above all of the Inner Party, that the true war enthusiasm is found. World-conquest is believed in most firmly by those who know it to be impossible.

SavaÅŸta yani tehlikede olmak duygusu, yaÅŸaman?n tek çözüm yolu olarak bütün gücün s?n?rl? bir zümrenin eline verilmesini hakl? gösterir.

La guerra es paz. La libertad es la esclavitud. La ignorancia es la fuerza.

LA GUERRE C'EST LA PAIX LA LIBERTÉ C'EST L'ESCLAVAGE L'IGNORANCE C'EST LA FORCE

El objeto de la guerra es siempre estar en mejor situación para librar otra guerra.

I thought it idiotic that people fighting for their lives should have separate parties; my attitude always was, 'Why can't we drop all this political nonsense and get on with the war?' This of course was the correct 'anti-Fascist' attitude which had been carefully disseminated by the English newspapers, largely in order to prevent people from grasping the real nature of the struggle.