Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.
The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.
What opinions the masses hold, or do not hold, is looked upon as a matter of indifference. They can be granted intellectual liberty becasue they have no intellect.
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.
But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength, would have no need to conspire. They needed only to rise up and shake themselves like a horse shaking off flies. If they chose they could blow the Party to pieces tomorrow morning. Surely sooner or later it must occur to them to do it? And yet --!
Often, what seems an impossible climb is just a staircase without the steps drawn in.
I can't say, maybe it's something in the ingredients, but again, we have a couple of contestants from Long Island and a phenomenal array of chefs.
The reason people use a crucifix against vampires is because vampires are allergic to bullshit.
I come from an everyday middle class family in India. The film industry reached us only through our television sets and cinema halls.