Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Some things ARE true, even though the party says they are true.

A dirty joke is not, of course, a serious attack on morality, but it is a sort of mental rebellion, a momentary wish that things were otherwise.

All that was required of them (i.e. the brain-washed masses) was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working hours or shorter rations. And even when they became discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because, being without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty specific grievances. The larger evils invariably escaped their notice.

Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.

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

Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes.