People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. Read Summary
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. Read Summary
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. Read Summary
There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them. Read Summary
Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise. Read Summary
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. Read Summary
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. Read Summary
Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception. Read Summary
At fifty everyone has the face he deserves. Read Summary
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it. Read Summary
War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil. Read Summary
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. Read Summary
In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. Read Summary
The best books... are those that tell you what you know already. Read Summary
Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end. Read Summary
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? Read Summary
Happiness can exist only in acceptance. Read Summary
Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf. Read Summary
We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. Read Summary
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting. Read Summary