"The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right all alon…"

"The English are not a spiritual people. They are a practical people."

"Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."

"Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious."

"The imagination, like certain wild animals, will not breed in captivity."