To exchange one orthodoxy for another is not necessarily an advance. The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment.

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

The urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever.

When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don't have to ask whose side I'm on.

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

It was true that there was no such person as Comrade Oglivy, but a few lines of print and a couple of faked photographs would soon bring him into existence... Comrade Oglivy, who had never existed in the present, now existed in the past, and when once the act of forgery was forgotten, he would exist just as authentically, and upon the same evidence, as Charlemagne or Julius Caesar.

But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong.