If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

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

If you ask any ordinary reader which of Dickens's proletarian characters he can remember, the three he is almost certain to mention are Bill Sykes, Sam Weller and Mrs. Gamp. A burglar, a valet and a drunken midwife-not exactly a representative cross-section of the English working class.

Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip, but the really well-trained dog is the one that turns his somersault when there is no whip.

The object of power is power.

Power is not a means; it is an end.

You're only a rebel from the waist downwards,' he told her.