Bad writers are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones.

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.

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.

The object of powder is powder.

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

Football, a game in which everyone gets hurt and every nation has its own style of play which seems unfair to foreigners.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.