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 of continuous warfare, which is also useful in keying up public morale to the necessary pitch.. The problem, that is to say, is educational. It is a problem of continuously molding the consciousness both of the directing group and of the larger executive group that lies immediately below it. The consciousness of the masses needs only to be influenced in a negative way. . George Orwell
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  2. They're in love. Fuck the war. - Thomas Pynchon

  3. If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are. - Kristin Hannah

  4. And when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful. - Ruskin Bond

  5. The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second. - Aberjhani

More Quotes By George Orwell
  1. Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.

  2. At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.

  3. This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.

  4. Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

  5. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

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