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In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

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

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the...

Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

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