The major problem of our time is the decay in the belief in personal immortality, and it cannot be dealt with while the average human being is either drudging like an ox or shivering in fear of the secret police... How right [the working classes] are to realize that the belly comes before the soul, not in the scale of values but in point of time!

Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes: only in the mind of the Party, which is collective and immortal.

News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all else is advertising.

Politically, Swift was one of those people who are driven into a sort of perverse Toryism by the follies of the progressive party of the moment.

All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.

Even through the shut window pane, the world looked cold.

A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature