"Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it."

"It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words."

"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…"

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

"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."