Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxwork displays, film shows, telescreen programs all had to be organized; stands had to be erected, effigies built, slogans coined, songs written, rumours circulated, photographs faked.

Most people approve of capital punishment, but most people wouldn't do the hangman's job.

England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality.

The secret of a successful restaurant is sharp knives.

The heresy of heresies was common sense.

I think I exist,' he said wearily. 'I am conscious of my own identity. I was born, and I shall die. I have arms and legs. I occupy a particular point in space. No other solid object can occupy the same point simultaneously.

We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.