A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY.

Given a fair chance, human beings can govern themselves, and govern themselves better

Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

Pain was a fascinating horror

The only truly consistent are the dead.

Happiness is never grand.