Lukekaahan näitä ihan ajatuksella:
"All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting."
"As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. "
"At fifty everyone has the face he deserves. "
"As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents."
"Four legs good, two legs bad. "
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. "
"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever."
"Liberal: a power worshipper without power. "
"On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time."
"One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up."
"Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice. "
"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded. "
"The best books... are those that tell you what you know already. "
"The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection. "
"The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time. "
"The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history. "
"To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others. "
"War is war. The only good human being is a dead one. "
"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. "
"War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil. "
"We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun."
"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? "
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. "