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

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Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the...

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The majority of pacifists either belong to obscure religious sects or are simply humanitarians who object to taking life and prefer not to follow thei...

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As for the problem of overproduction, which has been latent in our society since the development of the machine technique, it is solved by the device ...

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The war is not meant to be won. It is meant to be continuous. The essential act of modern warfare is the destruction of the produce of human labour. A...

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When it is necessary they can be prodded into frenzies of fear and hatred, but when left to themselves they are capable of forgetting for long periods...

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War, it will be seen, is now a purely internal affair. In the past, the ruling groups of all countries, although they might recognize their common int...

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The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or...

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If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has been told about t...

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Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he s...

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The citizen of Oceania is not allowed to know anything of the tenets of the other two philosophies... Everywhere there is the same pyramidal structure...