>[...] at this moment ‘Better an end with horror than a horror without end’ is a winner. Now that we are fighting against the man who coined it, we ought not to

>[...] at this moment ‘Better an end with horror than a horror without end’ is a winner. Now that we are fighting against the man who coined it, we ought not to underrate its emotional appeal.” Orwell's attribution of the quote here seems to be incorrect. While it's true that Hitler used the saying in his speeches [1], it predates him by many decades, and is often attributed to Ferdinand von Schill (the guy who unsuccessfully rebelled against Napoleon). [2][3] [1]: https://comicism.tripod.com/341108.html https://comicism.tripod.com/341108.html [2]: https://de.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/lieber_ein_Ende_mit_Schrecken_als_ein_Schrecken_ohne_Ende https://de.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/lieber_ein_Ende_mit_Schreck... [3]: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/6564585-better-an-end-with-horror-than-a-horror-without-end https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/6564585-better-an-end-with-...