Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on.

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.

The Penguin books are splendid value for sixpence, so splendid that if other publishers had any sense they would combine against them and suppress them.

To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible, and glittering-a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons-a nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting-three hundred million people all with the same face.