"The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude."

"The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world."

"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."

"One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool."

"Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing."