“Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.”

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.

Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.

I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.

The quality of our life depends on the quality of the seeds that lie deep in our consciousness.

Protecting our future on this planet depends on the conscious evolution of our species.

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

Enlightenment doesnt occur from sitting around visualizing images of light, but from integrating the darker aspects of the Self into the conscious personality.

But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.

Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness.

Man’s task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.