Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.

The words democracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realistic, justice have each of them several different meanings which cannot be reconciled with one another.

It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.

Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are.

In all the modern talk about energy, efficiency, social service and the rest of it, what meaning is there except "Get money, get it legally, and get a lot of it"? Money has become the grand test of virtue.

Winston was gelatinous with fatigue.