I felt as if I was the only person awake in a city of sleepwalkers. That's an illusion, of course. When you walk through a crowd of strangers it's next door to impossible not to imagine that they're all waxworks, but probably they're thinking just the same about you.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

We have become too civilized to grasp the obvious. For the truth is very simple. To survive you often have to fight, and to fight you have to dirty yourself. War is evil, and it is often the lesser evil. Those who take the sword perish by the sword, and those who don't take the sword perish by smelly diseases.

Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.

Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.