Every war when it comes or before it comes is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defens

Every war when it comes or before it comes is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

Author: George Orwell

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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it and wiser than the one that comes after it.

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

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

That until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all, without regard to race - Dis a war.

Until the colour of a man's skin is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes - Me say war.

Until the philosophy which hold one race superior, and another inferior, is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned - everywhere is war!