The upper class desire to remain so, the middle class wish to overthrow the upper class, and the lower class want a classless system.

Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy

No animal shall kill any other animal WITHOUT CAUSE.

From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned.

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.

From the proletarians nothing is to be feared. Left to themselves, they will continue from generation to generation and from century to century, working, breeding, and dying, not only without any impulse to rebel, but without the power of grasping that the world could be other than it is.

All nationalistic distinctions - all claims to be better than somebody else because you have a different-shaped skull or speak a different dialect - are entirely spurious, but they are important so long as people believe in them.