A humanitarian is always a hypocrite.

I'd like to start a religion. That's where the money is.

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

Snobbishness, like hypocrisy, is a check upon behaviour whose value from a social point of view has been underrated.

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.

At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is 'not done' to say it... Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the high-brow periodicals.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.