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" One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return. "

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" If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right? "

" Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers. "

" Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness. "

" Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell. "

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

" To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself. "

" I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment. "

" Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing. "

" The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded. "

" Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent. "

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

" The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection. "

" Good writing is like a windowpane. "

" Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. "

" We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. "

" The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent. "

" No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer. "

" In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. "

" 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. "

" Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper. "

" War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent. "

" The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature. "

" At fifty everyone has the face he deserves. "

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

" So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot. "

" What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy? "

" Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise. "

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

" Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards. "

" Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings. "