I'm fat, but I'm thin inside. Has it ever struck you that there's a thin man inside every fat man, just as they say there's a statue inside every block of stone?

The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.

For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realise that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance.

Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose

Now he had recognized himself as a dead man it became important to stay alive as long as possible.

If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any practical result whatsoever, you've beaten them.

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent, but the tests that have to be applied to them are not, of course, the same in all cases.