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.


The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell: An age like this, 1920-1940 (ed. Harvill Secker, 1968)

George Orwell Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.