Nothing holds it together except an idea which is indestructible.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power.

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

Cricket is a game full or forlorn hopes and sudden dramatic changes of fortune and its rules are so ill-defined that their interpretation is partly an ethical business.

Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.