Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

But the thing that I saw in your face no power can disinherit: No bomb that ever burst shatters the crystal spirit.

The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life, imposed by the dead upon the living. A ruling group is a ruling group so long as it can nominate its successors. The Party is not concerned with perpetuating its blood but with perpetuating itself. Who wields power is not important, provided that the hierarchical structure remains always the same.

True freedom is the right to say something that others don't want to hear.

The essential point here is that all people with small, insecure incomes are in the same boat and ought to be fighting on the same side. Probably we could do with a little less talk about' capitalist' and 'proletarian' and a little more about the robbers and the robbed.