But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.

Four legs gooood, two legs baaad!

The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.

The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.

Sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield.

Nothing holds it together except an idea which is indestructible.