The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise.

No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?

Creeds like pacifism or anarchism, which seem on the surface to imply a complete renunciation of power, rather encourage this habit of mind. For if you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics ... the more you are in the right (and) everybody else should be bullied into thinking otherwise.

Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes.

She was very young...she still expected something from life, she did not understand that to push an inconvenient person over a cliff solves nothing.

they say that time heals all things, they say you can always forget; but the smiles and the tears across the years they twist my heart strings yet!