Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble. If one gets rid of these habits one can think more clearly, and to think clearly is a necessary first step toward political regeneration: so that the fight against bad English is not frivolous and is not the exclusive concern of professional [or scholarly] writers.

... what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be told truthfully.

[...] you can get anything in this world if you genuinely don't want it.

Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought.

Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than ribbons?

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.

Weakness is strength.