A liberal is a power worshipper without the power.

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 right?

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.

Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

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

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face -- forever.

To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armor, the apostles of the martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when the time comes. History is full of ignominious getaways by the great and famous.

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.