Good writing is like a windowpane.

I had been in London innumerable times, and yet till that day I had never noticed one of the worst things about London-the fact that it costs money even to sit down.

You preferred to be a lunatic, a minority of one.

History has to move in a certain direction, even if it has to be pushed that way by neurotics.

The human beings did not hate Animal Farm any less now that it was prospering; indeed, they hated it more than ever.

Revolutions only effect a radical improvement when the masses are alert and know how to chuck out their leaders as soon as the latter have done their job.

You would not make the act of submission which is the price of sanity.