"The most stirring battle-poem in English is..." - Quote by George Orwell

“All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.”

“Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose”

“A plongeur is a slave, and a wasted slave, doing stupid and largely unnecessary work. He is kept at work, ultimately, because of a vague feeling that he would be dangerous if he had leisure. And educated people, who should be on his side, acquiesce in the process, because they know nothing about him and consequently are afraid of him.”

“Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I'll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, 'I'd like to write about that.' Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem.”

“Probably the best nonsense poetry is produced gradually and accidentally, by communities rather than by individuals.”

“Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all.”

“Do you ever wonder if--well, if there are people living on the third planet?' 'The third planet is incapable of supporting life,' stated the husband patiently. 'Our scientists have said there's far too much oxygen in their atmosphere.”

“Nothing is more annoying than to be obscurely hanged.”

“For Brutus is an honourable man;So are they all, all honourable men.”