“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
Preface to Animal Farm, 1944

“Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it.”
“Why I Write”, 1946.

“The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.”
Letter to Malcolm Muggeridge, 1948