George Orwell Quotes

During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.

When old men decided to barter young men for pride and profit, the transaction was called war.

Nationalism, on my opinion, is nothing more than an idealistic rationalization for militarism and aggression.

For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.

In the beginning of the Great War, the emotions of Europe ran riot in a most horrible manner, first among the so-called 'living,' and then among the killed when they awoke.

Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process; yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

Sacrifice is going to war for your country. Sacrifice is a brave young man being blown up by a landmine in Afghanistan.

I can hardly repress our press and our people too. They are thirsting for war against England.

[Theodore Roosevelt] came down here [Washington DC] looking for war. He did not care whom we fought as long as there was a scrap.

Men go to war for fear, honor or interest.

I like war.

A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.

When you go to war, it's important for everybody to know that they're going to come home in one way or other.

War is a fundamental aspect of human existence. It's good to know what war entails and what the human sacrifice is.

It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it.

I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

Only in a popular war against France... do I see a misfortune.