Bombing is not especially inhumane. War itself is inhumane and the bombing plane, which is used to paralyse industry and transport, is a relatively civilised weapon. 'Normal' or 'legitimate' warfare is just as destructive of inanimate objects and enormously so of human lives.

One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.

The Party is not interested in the overt act. The thought is all we care about.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.

The tendency of advanced capitalism has been to enlarge the middle class and not to wipe it out, as it once seemed likely to do.

Even through the shut window pane, the world looked cold.