War is...

I was looking for the quote from George Orwell's novel 1984 that begins "War is Peace." So I plugged it into Google, and noticed something funny in the suggestions (I use search auto-completion).

After entering "war is" Google already came up with a ton of suggestions that start that way. Suggestions are ranked by the number of results they return, so these quotes are ranked by their popularity.

These are the top 10:

  • war is hell
  • war is peace
  • war is kind
  • war is a force that gives us... [cut off]
  • war is a racket
  • war is not the answer
  • war is peace freedom is... [cut off]
  • war is good
  • war is over
  • war is peace 1984

This might be food for thought, but alas I don't have the time to comment on it because I need to get some work on my Nano done.

Edit: But I did enter "war is good", and notice that all suggestions were variations of "war is good for the economy".

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