Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

It could not have been ten seconds, and yet it seemed a long time that their hands were clasped together. He had time to learn every detail of her hand.

Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.

How right the working classes are in their "materialism." How right they are to realize that the belly comes before the soul, not in the scale of values but in point of time!

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.

Nearly all creators of Utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache... Whoever tries to imagine perfection simply reveals his own emptiness.

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.