By the time you have perfected any style of writing, you have always outgrown it.

The human beings did not hate Animal Farm any less now that it was prospering; indeed, they hated it more than ever.

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.

He loved Big Brother.

We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future.

In the past the need for a hierarchal form of society has been the doctrine specifically of the High. It had been preached by kings and aristocrats and the priests, lawyers and the like who were parasitical upon them, and it had generally been softened by promises of an imaginary world beyond the grave.

While the game of deadlocks and bottle-necks goes on, another more serious game is also being played. It is governed by two axioms. One is that there can be no peace without a general surrender of sovereignty: the other is that no country capable of defending its sovereignty ever surrenders it. If one keeps these axioms in mind one can generally see the relevant facts in international affairs through the smoke-screen with which the newspapers surround them.