The result of this is that so-called peace propaganda is just as dishonest and intellectually disgusting as war propaganda. Like war propaganda, it concentrates on putting forward a ‘case’, obscuring the opponent’s point of view and avoiding awkward questions.

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

There is no test of literary merit except survival, which is itself an index to majority opinion.

I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.

[Political] prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house.

Totalitarianism, if not fought against, could triumph anywhere.