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" Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. "

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" To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization. "

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

" What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy? "

" 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. "

" Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf. "

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

" To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others. "

" People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. "

" Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing. "

" It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning. "

" We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun. "

" Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there. "

" The best books... are those that tell you what you know already. "

" All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting. "

" A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion. "

" A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him. "

" Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below. "

" Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings. "

" War is war. The only good human being is a dead one. "

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" Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers. "

" Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell. "

" Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism. "

" As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents. "

" There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them. "

" Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia. "

" 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. "