We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

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

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than ribbons?

For the future. For the unborn.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

When you meet anyone in the flesh you realize immediately that he is a human being and not a sort of caricature embodying certain ideas. It is partly for this reason that I don't mix much in literary circles, because I know from experience that once I have met and spoken to anyone I shall never again be able to feel any intellectual brutality towards him, even when I feel I ought to - like the Labour M.P.s who get patted on the back by dukes and are lost forever more.