Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

Orwell clung with a kind of wry, grim pride to the old ways of the last class that had ruled the old order. He must sometimes have wondered how it came about that he should be praising sportsmanship and gentlemanliness and dutifulness and physical courage. He seems to have thought, and very likely he was right, that they might come in handy as revolutionary virtues.

Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.

There is only one hope for mankind - and that is democratic socialism. There is only one party in Great Britain which can do it - and that is the Labour Party.

When a king has good counselors, his reign is peaceful.

The American dream does not come to those who fall asleep.