If conquerors be regarded as the engine-drivers of History, then the conquerors of thought are perhaps the pointsmen who, less conspicuous to the traveler's eye, determine the direction of the journey.

The life we led was a proof of man's capacity for adaptation.I think that even the condemned souls in purgatory after time develop a sort of homely routine.That is ,by the way, why most prison memoirs are unreadable.The difficulty of conveying to the reader an idea of a nightmare world from which he has emerged makes the author depict the prisoner's state of mind as an uninterruped continuity of despair.He fears to appear frivolous or to spoil his effect by admitting that even in the depths of misery cheerfulness keeps breaking in.

History had a slow pulse; man counted in years, history in generations

If the creator has a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely would have meant for us to stick it out.

Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition.

The Régime did not want Communists; it wanted robots. It will take at least a generation to change them back into humans again.

In any language it is a struggle to make a sentence say exactly what you mean.