He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable.

...men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them.

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble.

Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.

Whoever controls the image and information of the past determines what and how future generations will think; whoever controls the information and images of the present determines how those same people will view the past." "He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past.

Between pigs and human beings there was not and there need not be any clash of interest whatsoever.