"The plans and schemes of tyrants are broken by many things. They shatter against cliffs of heroic struggle. They rupture on reefs of open resistance. And they are slowly eroded, bit by little bit, on the very beaches where they measure triumph, by countless grains of sand. By the stubborn little decencies of humble little men."

"The existence of a state within the State—the Party and the bureaucracy—is a phenomenon of the post-War world."

"Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions."

"Boiling heretics and malefactors alive, commonly in oil but occasionally in water, was practised throughout…"

"Even if you believe that prostitution and pornography are fundamentally acceptable, the challenge of Dworki…"

"It’s a bitch when someone reminds you of all the contradictions in your life, I know. Your discomfort doesn…"

"This school is opposed by that of the believers in orthodox Christianity, who declare that the whole story …"