Snobbishness, like hypocrisy, is a check upon behaviour whose value from a social point of view has been underrated.

A Socialist United States of Europe seems to me the only worth-while political objective today

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

The animals were happy as they had never conceived it possible to be. Every mouthful of food was an acute positive pleasure, now that it was truly their own food, produced by themselves and for themselves, not doled out to them by a grudging master.

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself. You must know all the while that it is there, but until it is needed you must never let it emerge into your consciousness in any shape that can be given a name.

The consequences of every act are included in the act itself.

We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull.