Mrs Weaver nosed among the books, too dim-witted to grasp that they were in alphabetical order.

The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped.

We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now.

Lastly, tea--unless one is drinking it in the Russian style--should be drunk WITHOUT SUGAR. I know very well that I am in a minority here. But still, how can you call yourself a true tea-lover if you destroy the flavour of your tea by putting sugar in it? It would be equally reasonable to put in pepper or salt. Tea is meant to be bitter, just as beer is meant to be bitter. If you sweeten it, you are no longer tasting the tea, you are merely tasting the sugar; you could make a very similar drink by dissolving sugar in plain hot water.

Between pigs and human beings there was not and there need not be any clash of interest whatsoever.

We believe half-instinctively that evil always defeats itself in the long run. Pacifism is founded largely on this belief. Don't resist evil, and it will somehow destroy itself. But why should it? What evidence is there that it does... unless conquered from the outside by military force?

A peace that was truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war.