If human equality is to be forever averted -- if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently -- then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity.

An earthquake is such fun when it is over.

The aims of these three groups are entirely irreconcilable. The aim of the High is to remain where they are. The aim of the Middle is to change places with the High. The aim of the Low, when they have an aim-for it is an abiding characteristic of the Low that they are too much crushed by drudgery to be more than intermittently conscious of anything outside their daily lives -is to abolish all distinctions and create a society in which all men shall be equal.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

...men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them.

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane.