All talk of winning the people by appealing to their intelligence, of conquering them by impeccable syllogism, is so much moonshine.

I am a strict monogamist: it is twenty years since I last went to bed with two women at once, and then I was in my cups and not myself.

What the meaning of human life may be I don't know: I incline to suspect that it has none.

The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.

The State doesn't just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey.

I never listen to debates. They are dreadful things indeed. The plain truth is that I am not a fair man, and don't want to hear both sides. On all known subjects, ranging from aviation to xylophone-playing, I have fixed and invariable ideas. They have not changed since I was four or five.

The notion that anything is gained by fixing a language in a groove is cherished only by pedants.