“Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.”

“We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.”

“Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.”

“In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane.”

“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”

“You are a slow learner, Winston.""How can I help it? How can I help but see what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four.""Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.”

“Yet in the most mean, cowardly, hypocritical way the British ruling class did all they could to hand Spain over to Franco and the Nazis. Why? Because they were pro-Fascist, was the obvious answer.”