Four legs gooood, two legs baaad!

On each landing, opposite the lift shaft, the poster with the enormous face gazed from the wall. It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption beneath it ran.

The primary aim of modern warfare ... is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living.

The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.

War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.

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

Never have ideas about children, and never have ideas for them.