Do you know why you’re here? Shall I tell you why we brought you here? To cure you.To make you sane.

A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud.

We may be together for another six months—a year—there’s no knowing. At the end we’re certain to be apart. Do you realize how utterly alone we shall be?

It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith—as mysterious as faith itself.

When I joined the militia I had promised myself to kill one Fascist - after all, if each of us killed one they would soon be extinct.

Using clichés is a substitute for thinking

At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.