However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.

The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave. They owned all the land, all the houses, all the factories, and all the money. If anyone disobeyed them they could throw him into prison, or they could take his job away and starve him to death. When any ordinary person spoke to a capitalist he had to cringe and bow to him, and take off his cap and address him as 'Sir'

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy, and its ruling caste, in order to keep its position, has to be thought of as infallible. But since, in practice, no one is infallible, it is frequently necessary to rearrange past events in order to show that this or that mistake was not made, or that this or that imaginary triumph actually happened.

If I had understood the situation a bit better I should probably have joined the Anarchists.

Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.