It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as well as here. And the people under the sky were also very much the same--everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just like this, people ignorant of one another's existence, held apart by walls of hatred and lies, and yet almost exactly the same--people who had never learned to think but were storing up in their hearts and bellies and muscles the power that would one day overturn the world.

Human beings were behaving as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine.

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

Almost as swiftly as he had imagined it, she had torn her clothes off, and when she flung them aside it was with that same magnificent gesture by which a whole civilization seemed to be annihilated.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.

Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.