"The Party taught that the proles were natural inferiors who must be kept in subjection, like animals, by the applicat…"

"Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable of love, or friendship, or joy of living, or laug…"

"By 'patriotism' I mean devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life, which one believes to be the best…"

"As to a pseudonym, a name I always use when tramping etc is P. S. Burton, but if you don't think this sounds a probab…"

"This means no more than vae victis - woe to the creed that is not backed by machine-guns!"

"In England, a century of strong government has developed what O. Henry called the stern and rugged fear of the police…"

"To the well-fed it seems cowardly to complain of tight boots, because the well-fed live in a different world-a world …"

"What is needed is the right to print what one believes to be true, without having to fear bullying or blackmail from …"

"[T]here is something wrong with a regime that requires a pyramid of corpses every few years."

"Spending the night out of doors has nothing attractive about it in London, especially for a poor, ragged, undernouris…"