A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.
Big brother is watching you.
Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in god as personally dislike him.
We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.
Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing england in a phrase.
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. when there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. lies will pass into history.
The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.
Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.
Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.
Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.
Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.