All human relationships must be purchased with money.

The fact is that every war suffers a kind of progressive degradation with every month that it continues, because such things as individual liberty and a truthful press are simply not compatible with military efficiency.

In the past the need for a hierarchal form of society has been the doctrine specifically of the High. It had been preached by kings and aristocrats and the priests, lawyers and the like who were parasitical upon them, and it had generally been softened by promises of an imaginary world beyond the grave.

Winston was gelatinous with fatigue.

Freedom is the right to tell others what they don't want to hear.

A sahib has got to act like a sahib; he has got to appear resolute, to know his own mind and do definite things.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.