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Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.
Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics – a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage – surely that proves that you are in the right?
In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics.’ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.