Tolerance is the virtue of those who don't believe anything.

Cleanliness is not next to godliness nowadays, for cleanliness is made an essential and godliness is regarded as an offence.

All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.

The wisest thing in the world is to cry out before you are hurt. It is no good to cry out after you are hurt; especially after you are mortally hurt. People talk about the impatience of the populace; but sound historians know that most tyrannies have been possible because men moved too late. it is often essential to resist a tyranny before it exists.

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

He has come to the most dreadful conclusion a literary man can come to, the conclusion that the ordinary view is the right one. It is only the last and wildest kind of courage that can stand on a tower before ten thousand people and tell them that twice two is four.

People decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the bad.