Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are.

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.

To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone— to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone: From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink — greetings!

All nationalistic distinctions - all claims to be better than somebody else because you have a different-shaped skull or speak a different dialect - are entirely spurious, but they are important so long as people believe in them.

A sahib has got to act like a sahib; he has got to appear resolute, to know his own mind and do definite things.

Most people approve of capital punishment, but most people wouldn't do the hangman's job.