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

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

It could not have been ten seconds, and yet it seemed a long time that their hands were clasped together. He had time to learn every detail of her hand.

In the end I worked out an anarchistic theory that all government is evil, that the punishment always does more harm than the crime and that people can be trusted to behave decently if only you will let them alone.

The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling.

Nearly all creators of Utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache... Whoever tries to imagine perfection simply reveals his own emptiness.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.