For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavoring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.

One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death.

A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

The object of powder is powder.