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

His answer to every problem, every setback was “I will work harder!” —which he had adopted as his personal motto.

A scrupulous writer in every sentence that he writes will ask himself. . . What am I trying to say? What words will express it?...And he probably asks himself. . . Could I put it more shortly? But you are not obliged to go to all this trouble. You can shirk it by simply throwing open your mind and letting the ready-made phrases come crowding in. They will construct your sentences for you

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

An earthquake is such fun when it is over.

Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxwork displays, film shows, telescreen programs all had to be organized; stands had to be erected, effigies built, slogans coined, songs written, rumours circulated, photographs faked.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.