Bad writers are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones.
All nationalistic distinctions – all claims to be better than somebody else because you have a different-shaped skull or speak a different dialect – are entirely spurious, but they are important so long as people believe in them.
It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda tours.
This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.
Four legs good, two legs bad.
Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.
At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.
No animal shall kill any other animal WITHOUT CAUSE.
The object of power is power.
All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon.
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
Big Brother is watching you.
All men are enemies. All animals are comrades.
In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.
A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.
Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime is death.
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.