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

“it is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in secret. One should live with the stream of life, not against it.”

“The mistake you make, don't you see,is in thinking one can live in a corrupt society without being corrupt oneself. After all, what do you achieve by refusing to make money? You're trying to behave as though one could stand right outside our economic system. But one can't. One's got to change the system, or one changes nothing. One can't put things right in a hole-and-corner way, if you take my meaning.”

“I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.”

“Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.”

“The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.”

“The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.”