Winston Churchill could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

Using the word ‘political’ in the widest possible sense. Desire to push the world in a certain direction, to alter other peoples’ idea of the kind of society that they should strive after. Once again, no book is genuinely free from political bias. The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.

Real journalism is publishing something that somebody else does not want published - the rest is just public relations.

The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.

He [Gandhi] was not one of those saints who are marked out by their phenomenal piety from childhood onwards, nor one of the other kind who forsake the world after sensational debaucheries.