“To exchange one orthodoxy for another is not necessarily an advance. The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment.”

“In moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against one's own body.”

“To dislike a writer’s politics is one thing. To dislike him because he forces you to think is another, not necessarily incompatible with the first.”

“The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon.”

“Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.”

“Whether the British ruling class are wicked or merely stupid is one of the most difficult questions of our time, and at certain moments a very important question.”

“Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.”