Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.
It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you.
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.
Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of the citizen.
He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.
A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud.
All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes.
The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.
As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.
Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.
If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.
In the face of pain there are no heroes.
Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
But it was alright, everything was alright, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.
Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side, without ever bothering to examine the evidence.
We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening.
The main motive for nonattachment is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work.
So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and to take a pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information.