The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things, but over men

The human beings did not hate Animal Farm any less now that it was prospering; indeed, they hated it more than ever.

I have the most evil memories of Spain, but I have very few bad memories of Spaniards.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

One must choose between God and Man, and all "radicals" and "progressives", from the mildest liberal to the most extreme anarchist, have in effect chosen Man.

The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling.

What opinions the masses hold, or do not hold, is looked upon as a matter of indifference. They can be granted intellectual liberty becasue they have no intellect.