The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies 'something not desirable.'

To hang on from day to day and from week to week, spinning out a present that had no future, seemed an unconquerable instinct, just as one's lungs will always draw the next breath so long as there is air available.

Always eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or bed- no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters in your skull.

If there is hope, it lies in the proles.

A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.

It is brought home to you...that it is only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can remain superior.

From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned.