One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

It reminded us that propaganda in some form or other lurks in every book, that every work of art has a meaning and a purpose - a political, social and religious purpose - that our aesthetic judgements are always coloured by our prejudices and beliefs

Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip.

A sahib has got to act like a sahib; he has got to appear resolute, to know his own mind and do definite things.

Comrades!' he cried. 'You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health. Milk and apples (this has been proved by Science, comrades) contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig. We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of this farm depend on us. Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink the milk and eat those apples.

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.