I loathed the game, and since I could see no pleasure or usefulness in it, it was very difficult for me to show courage at it. Football, it seemed to me, is not really played for the pleasure of kicking a ball about, but is a species of fighting.

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that evey sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every moment scrutinized.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - what then?