In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.