Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.
The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.
Serious sport is war minus the shooting.
In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.
Big Brother is watching you.
Good writing is like a windowpane.
No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
