Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.

The Puritanical nonsense of excluding children and therefore to some extent women from pubs has turned these places into mere boozing shops instead of the family gathering places that they ought to be.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

What happens to you here is forever.

I watched him [a 'fat Russian agent'] with some interest, for it was the first time that I had seen a person whose profession was telling lies -- unless one counts journalists.