Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.
One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.
To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.
The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.
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.
Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.
The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.
Serious sport is war minus the shooting.
In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.
Big Brother is watching you.
Good writing is like a windowpane.
No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.
Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.