“Four legs good, two legs bad.”
“One cannot really be Catholic & grown-up.”
“A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.”
“The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.”
“Myths which are believed in tend to become true.”
“A liberal is a power worshipper without the power.”
“Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.”
“To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.”
“To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.”
“Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.”
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
“Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.”
“Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.”
“Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.”
“Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.”
“Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.”
“Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness”
“To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.”
“Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.”
“Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.”
“Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”
“As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for socialism is its adherents.”
“We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.”
“If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face -- forever.”
“On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.”
“No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.”
“I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.”
“For a creative writer possession of the ''truth'' is less important than emotional sincerity.”
“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”
“To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.”