"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."

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

"The English intellectual is a sort of Europeanized Indian."

"Perhaps one of the most alarming things about totalitarianism is that it is not, as is sometimes imagined, a static tyranny, but a dynamic one."

"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."