The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.

You're only a rebel from the waist downwards,' he told her.

If you turn the other cheek, you will get a harder blow on it than you got on the first one. This does not always happen, but it is to be expected, and you ought not to complain if it does happen.

The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.

But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong.

This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.