"The object of power is power."

"The best books, he perceived, are those that tell you what you know already."

"The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right all alon…"

"Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."

"The average man is not a fool, but he is a coward."