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.

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.

I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts.

The very word 'war', therefore, has become misleading. It would probably be accurate to say that by becoming continuous war has ceased to exist. ... War is Peace.

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

Perhaps it is only when people are somewhere near the starvation level that they have anything to sing about.

He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear. But so long as he uttered it, in some obscure way the continuity was not broken. It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.