"The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is prepared to muddle along, to be imperfect and yet to remain sane."

"Big Brother is watching you."

"The proles, if only they could become conscious of their own strength, would have no need to conspire."

"I have a sort of belly-to-earth attitude and always have had."

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