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

Why should be fruit be held inferior to the flower?

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

I have the most evil memories of Spain, but I have very few bad memories of Spaniards.

Human beings were behaving as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine.

But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength, would have no need to conspire. They needed only to rise up and shake themselves like a horse shaking off flies. If they chose they could blow the Party to pieces tomorrow morning. Surely sooner or later it must occur to them to do it? And yet --!

The slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.