At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.

This life we live nowadays. It's not life, it's stagnation death-in-life. Look at all these bloody houses and the meaningless people inside them. Sometimes I think we're all corpses. Just rotting upright.

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

For a second, two seconds, they had exchanged an equivocal glance, and that was the end of the story. But even that was a memorable event, in the locked loneliness in which one had to live.

Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.

To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words.... Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence.

A human being is primarily a bag for putting food into.