The smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to have got inside him, or into the air all round him. She had become a physical necessity.
Those who ‘abjure’ violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
All art is propaganda; on the other hand, not all propaganda is art.
Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
The more intelligent, the less sane.
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull.
Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip.
The fact is that certain themes cannot be celebrated in words, and tyranny is one of them. No one ever wrote a good book in praise of the Inquisition.
All propaganda is lies, even when one is telling the truth.
After 40, a man is responsible for his face.
I believe that the BBC, in spite of the stupidity of its foreign propaganda and the unbearable voices of its announcers, is very truthful. It is generally regarded here as more reliable than the press.
For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?
His answer to every problem, every setback was “I will work harder!” – which he had adopted as his personal motto.
You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks the whip. But the really well-trained dog is the one that turns somersaults when there is no whip-.