The materialist theory of history, that all politics and ethics are the expression of economics, is a very simple fallacy indeed. It consists simply of confusing the necessary conditions of life with the normal preoccupations of life, that are quite a different thing.

Gratitude, being nearly the greatest of human duties, is also nearly the most difficult.

The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.

A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.

Is there anyone... who will maintain that the Party System could have been created by people particularly fond of truth?

I would rather a boy learnt in the roughest school the courage to hit a politician, or gained in the hardest school the learning to refute him - rather than that he should gain in the most enlightened school the cunning to copy him.