...the object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war.

Weakness is strength.

He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear.

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

...the consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable condition of survival.

A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?

I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.