A Socialist United States of Europe seems to me the only worth-while political objective today

Perhaps it is only when people are somewhere near the starvation level that they have anything to sing about.

A hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance, this new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia but to keep the very structure of society intact.

Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.

In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.

In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase in pain. Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop.