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| There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction. | | Uncategorized | |
| They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening | | Uncategorized | |
| This is a kind of Orwellian scenario of attempting to deprive a people of a sense of past and a sense of community on which it depends and to rewrite history, | | Uncategorized | |
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| Throughout recorded time... there have been three kinds of people in the world, the High, the Middle, and the Low. They have been subdivided in many ways, they have borne countless different names, and their relative numbers, as well as their attitude towards one another, have varied from age to age: but the essential structure of society has never altered. Even after enormous upheavals and seemingly irrevocable changes, the same pattern has always reasserted itself, just as a gyroscope will always return to equilibrium, however far it is pushed one way or the other. The aims of these three groups are entirely irreconcilable. | | Uncategorized | |
| To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armor, the apostles of the martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when the time comes. History is full of ignominious getaways by the great and famous. | | Uncategorized | |
| To accept an unorthodoxy is always to inherit unresolved contradictions | | Uncategorized | |
| To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay. | | Uncategorized | |
| To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others | | Love | |
| To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle | | Uncategorized | |
| To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself. | | Uncategorized | |
| To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization. | | Uncategorized | |
| To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence. He is struggling against vagueness, against obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective, against the encroachment of Latin and Greek, and, above all, against the worn-out phrases and dead metaphors with which the language is cluttered up. | | Uncategorized | |
| War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it. | | Uncategorized | |
| War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent. | | Uncategorized | |
| War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil | | Evil; War | |
| War is war. The only good human being is a dead one. | | Uncategorized | |
| We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men | | Duty | |
| We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun. | | Uncategorized | |
| We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose. | | Uncategorized | |
