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

- George Orwell

Other quotes by George Orwell

Literature

The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.

- George Orwell

Violence Men

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

- George Orwell

Books Feeling Job

Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.

- George Orwell

Idea

The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth.

- George Orwell

Violence Words War Nothing

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 witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

- George Orwell

Vision Want

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

- George Orwell

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