George Orwell War Quotes

What did George Orwell say about War?

George Orwell has written many quotes about War. E.g.,

• War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
• War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.
• 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.

What are the top most famous War quotes by George Orwell?

Here are the top most famous quotes about War by George Orwell.

• War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
• War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.
• 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.
• To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
• 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.
• War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
• Serious sport is war minus the shooting.
• There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.
• War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.
• Oceania was at war with Eurasia therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.