It was true that there was no such person as Comrade Oglivy, but a few lines of print and a couple of faked photographs would soon bring him into existence... Comrade Oglivy, who had never existed in the present, now existed in the past, and when once the act of forgery was forgotten, he would exist just as authentically, and upon the same evidence, as Charlemagne or Julius Caesar.

Revolutions only effect a radical improvement when the masses are alert and know how to chuck out their leaders as soon as the latter have done their job.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don't have to ask whose side I'm on.

Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes.

He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.