"The object of terror is terror. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand m…"

"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever."

"The world is a raft sailing through space with, potentially, plenty of provisions for everybody."

"But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought."

"The greatest danger to Western civilization is not communism, but the intellectual who thinks he is a communist."