The world will be saved by beauty.

For the secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for. Without a stable conception of the object of life, man would not consent to go on living, and would rather destroy himself than remain on earth, though he had bread in abundance.

Human laziness makes people pigeonhole one another at first site so that they find nothing in common with one another.

If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning.

Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.

Every member of the society spies on the rest, and it is his duty to inform against them. All are slaves and equal in their slavery... The great thing about it is equality... Slaves are bound to be equal.

I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. An unattractive man. I think that my liver hurts.