Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.

Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.

Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist? O'Brien: Of course he exists. Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me? O'Brien: You do not exist.

I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.

It was given out that the animals there practised cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common. This was what came of rebelling against the laws of Nature, Frederick and Pilkington said.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

In moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against one's own body.