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

"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever."

"The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better."

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

"Early in life I noted that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper, but in the Spanish War I saw newspaper reports which did not bear the remotest relation to the facts, not even the relati…"