"One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool."

"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power."

"The proles, if only they could become conscious of their own strength, would have no need to conspire."

"It is not merely that we are not allowed to be truthful, but that we are compelled to be dishonest."

"I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt."