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.

Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.

The organizing principal for any culture is War.

The fight against bad English is not frivolous.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.

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