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| But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. | | Uncategorized | |
| But the thing that I saw in your face no power can disinherit: No bomb that ever burst shatters the crystal spirit. | | Uncategorized | |
| During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act | | Truth | |
| Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it | | Generations | |
| Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper | | Uncategorized | |
| England and the English As a rule they will refuse even to sample a foreign dish, they regard such things as garlic and olive oil with disgust, life is unlivable to them unless they have tea and puddings | | Uncategorized | |
| Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility. | | Uncategorized | |
| Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac. | | Uncategorized | |
| For a creative writer possession of the ''truth'' is less important than emotional sincerity. | | Uncategorized | |
| For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavoring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him. | | Uncategorized | |
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| Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. | | Uncategorized | |
| Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear | | Freedom | |
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| He is a man of thirty-five, but looks fifty. He is bald, has varicose veins and wears spectacles, or would wear them if his only pair were not chronically lost. If things are normal with him, he will be suffering from malnutrition, but if he has recently had a lucky streak, he will be suffering from a hangover. At present it is half past eleven in the morning, and according to his schedule he should have started work two hours ago; but even if he had made any serious effort to start he would have been frustrated by the almost continuous ringing of the telephone bell, the yells of the baby, the rattle of an electric drill out in the street, and the heavy boots of his creditors clumping up the stairs. The most recent interruption was the arrival of the second post, which brought him two circulars and an income tax demand printed in red. Needless to say this person is a writer. | | Uncategorized | |
| He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him. | | Atheism | |
| He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past. | | Politics | |
| He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future. | | Control; Future; Past; Politics | |
| However true the scapegoat theory may be in general terms, it does not explain why the Jews rather than some other minority group are picked on, nor does it make clear what they are the scapegoat for. | | Uncategorized | |
