Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

If he thinks he floats off the floor, and if I simultaneously think I see him do it, then the thing happens.

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.

You are a slow learner, Winston." "How can I help it? How can I help but see what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four." "Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.

I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.

When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don't have to ask whose side I'm on.

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.