"In our age there is no such..." - Quote by George Orwell

“Sanity is not statistical.”

“It could not have been ten seconds, and yet it seemed a long time that their hands were clasped together. He had time to learn every detail of her hand.”

“In a way, the world-view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening. By lack of understanding they remained sane. They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left no residue behind, just as a grain of corn will pass undigested through the body of a bird.”

“The morality of a [political] party must grow out of the conscience and the participation of the voters.”

“Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools.”

“Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.”

“People are just afraid of things too much … Sure, evil exists, extremism exists. Somebody could commit a hate crime and hurt me. But they could do the same just because I'm black. They could do the same just because I'm American.”

“Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.”

“The State is a poor, good beast who means the best: it means friendly.”