"All propaganda is a lie, even when it is telling the truth" "War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profi

"All propaganda is a lie, even when it is telling the truth" "War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it." "It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda-tours." "It is sometimes a comfort to me to think that the aeroplane is changing the conditions of warfare. In the next great war, we may see that sight unprecedented in all history, a jingo with a bullet-hole in him." "Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting." "To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle." I strongly recommend the four-volume Penguin edition of his collected journalism and essays.