Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

Those who abjure violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.