Real power is achieved when the ruling class controls the material essentials of life, granting and withholding them from the masses as if they were privileges.

The Penguin books are splendid value for sixpence, so splendid that if other publishers had any sense they would combine against them and suppress them.

If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and do know better.

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.

The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth.

It was not the man's brain that was speaking; it was his larynx.