George Orwell Quotes

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

Because of empathy, stories of the suffering of one person could lead us into a war that could kill millions of people.

You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war.

The term 'just war' is an internal contradiction. War is inherently unjust, and the great challenge of our time is how to deal with evil, tyranny and oppression without killing huge numbers of people.

In the struggle of good against evil, it's always the people who get killed.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

We all want peace. Unfortunately, there are times when peace must be defended by fighting terror and tyranny.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

I do not wish a foreign army to spill the blood of my people.

I couldn't stand the idea of bloodshed, casualties.

Why do people want to kill and maim and pillage? We're all in it together.

Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.

One of the main purveyors of violence in this world has been this country.

There can be no peace with someone who wants to kill you.

We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in wars ever since. We're not a pacific people.

I think the brutality is important to convey as part of the story, to see how brutal it is to have these kids in battle with one another.

If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting.

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

Even today we raise our hand against our brother... We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

It's a major part of world history that men are trying to kill each other. It's just one slaughter after the other. We talk about it, but no one's really listening.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out