“The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.”
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War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.
No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.