If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.

The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

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

Pacifism is objectively pro-Fascist

The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped.

Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power.