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.
We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
Who controls the past controls the future. who controls the present controls the past.
Happiness can exist only in acceptance.