George Orwell Quotes About Pacifism

Quotes about: Pacifism

• Pacifism is objectively pro-Fascist

  George Orwell

  Inspirational, Fascists, Pacifism

  George Orwell (1998). “The complete works of George Orwell”

• Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.

  George Orwell

  Home, Government, Cows

  George Orwell (1998). “The complete works of George Orwell”

• Since pacifists have more freedom of action in countries where traces of democracy survive, pacifism can act more effectively against democracy than for it. Objectively the pacifist is pro-Nazi.

  George Orwell

  Country, Democracy, Action

  George Orwell (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.171, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me'.

  George Orwell

  Real, War, Practice

  George Orwell (1998). “The complete works of George Orwell”

• Creeds like pacifism or anarchism, which seem on the surface to imply a complete renunciation of power, rather encourage this habit of mind. For if you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics ... the more you are in the right (and) everybody else should be bullied into thinking otherwise.

  George Orwell

  Thinking, Mind, Atheism

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.335, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• We believe half-instinctively that evil always defeats itself in the long run. Pacifism is founded largely on this belief. Don't resist evil, and it will somehow destroy itself. But why should it? What evidence is there that it does... unless conquered from the outside by military force?

  George Orwell

  Running, Military, Believe

  George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.174, HMH

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