The propensity of human beings to blunder seems as great in matters of war and peace as it is in daily life. national leaders, their advisors, and their bureaucracies are capable of gross overconfidence, sloppy analysis, lapses of objectivity, wrong-headed preconceptions, disregard of facts that cast doubt on those preconceptions, zeal at the cost of rationality, suppression of debate, punishment of dissent, and other failures, fallacies, and fantasies that can lead to wrong choices and bad results. In no public or private utterance was it ever admitted that the three powers had at any time been grouped along different lines. Oceania was at war with Eurasia and in alliance with Eastasia. But to trace out the history of the whole period, to say who was fighting whom at any given moment, would have been utterly impossible. For several months during his childhood there had been confused street fighting in London itself, some of which he remembered vividly. war had been literally continuous, though strictly speaking it had not always been the same war.
It's all for nothing if you don't have freedom." To squeeze in his arms their daughters and women."Įvery man dies, not every man really lives. "The moral is to the physical as three is to one,"
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