Manchester is the belly and guts of the nation

How right the working classes are in their "materialism." How right they are to realize that the belly comes before the soul, not in the scale of values but in point of time!

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

A hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance, this new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia but to keep the very structure of society intact.

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane.

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.