George Orwell

“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.”

“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.”

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

“The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.”

“War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.”

“Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.”

“If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?”

“For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.”