Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

I have the most evil memories of Spain, but I have very few bad memories of Spaniards.

Men use up their lives in heart-breaking political struggles, or get themselves killed in civil wars, or tortured in the secret prisons of the Gestapo, not in order to establish some central-heated, air-conditioned, strip-lighted Paradise, but because they want a world in which human beings love one another instead of swindling and murdering one another.

The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life, imposed by the dead upon the living. A ruling group is a ruling group so long as it can nominate its successors. The Party is not concerned with perpetuating its blood but with perpetuating itself. Who wields power is not important, provided that the hierarchical structure remains always the same.

There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word-- Man

Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.

The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.