“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments

In the face of pain there are no heroes.

There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.

If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.

The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion.

To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.

If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.

The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.

The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.

Four legs good, two legs bad.

There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.

I have nothing else to say other than I wasn’t corrupt, unfair, or greedy. I was smart when it came to making decisions for my company, and I wasn’t greedy. I gave to others in charity and donated money to fund programs. I have nothing else to say.

If one limb of the body is defected or inflicted with, disease, the whole feels that pain. Some way if any department, minister or official of the state is faulty, the whole country is effected. An administrator should try hard to curb it.

While I am a capitalist at heart and I have no problems with commercialization as such, I believe that while it’s okay if education becomes a profitable business, it’s not okay if it becomes corrupt.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.

The flag of SP means the flag of goons. BSP’s flag means the flag of corruption.

In my very first Cabinet meeting, I told my colleagues we must take on corruption, lawlessness, casteism, and the politics of appeasement.

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds. Pity the nation that needs to jail those who ask for justice, while communal killers, mass murderers, corporate scamsters, looters, rapists, and those who prey on the poorest of the poor, roam free.