A Collection Of Essays: (Authorized Orwell Edition): A Mariner Books Classic (Harvest Book)

by George Orwell

I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

language as an instrument for expressing and not for concealing or preventing thought.

At a given moment they may be “pro-war” or “anti-war,” but in either case they have no realistic picture of war in their minds.

We have become too civilised to grasp the obvious. For the truth is very simple. To survive you often have to fight, and to fight you have to dirty yourself. War Is evil, and it is often the lesser evil.

War is...