If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
~ George Orwell
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?
I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.
Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.
Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.
