It is deliberate policy to keep even the favoured groups somewhere near the brink of hardship, because a general state of scarcity increases the importance of small privileges and thus magnifies the distinction between one group and another.

Football, a game in which everyone gets hurt and every nation has its own style of play which seems unfair to foreigners.

One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.

...every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures.

If I had to make a list of six books which were to be preserved when all others were destroyed, I would certainly put Gulliver's Travels among them.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

The war is waged against its own subjects and its object is not the victory...but to keep the very structure of society intact.