Actually there is little acute hatred of Germany left in this country, and even less, I should expect to find, in the army of occupation. Only the mi… - George Orwell

There is no crime, absolutely none, that cannot be condoned when 'our' side commits it.

The lady in the Rolls-Royce car is more damaging to morale than a fleet of Göring’<nowiki/>s bombing planes.

It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as well as here. And the people under the sky were also very much the same — everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just like this, people ignorant of one another's existence, held apart by walls of hatred and lies, and yet almost exactly the same — people who had never learned to think but were storing up in their hearts and bellies and muscles the power that would one day overturn the world.