Power is not a means; it is an end.

Sanity is not statistical.

That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.

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.

We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.