I would sooner be a foreigner in Spain than in most countries. How easy it is to make friends in Spain!

The war is waged against its own subjects and its object is not the victory...but to keep the very structure of society intact.

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.

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.

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.

To do anything that suggested a taste for solitude, even to go for a walk by yourself, was always slightly dangerous. There was a word for it in Newspeak: ownlife.