On the sixtieth anniversary of the Publication of 1984, his greatest novel only because Animal Farm is not a novel, this conclusion from his essay on "The Common Toad".

"The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun, and neither the dictators nor the bureaucrats, deeply as they disapprove of the process, are able to prevent it."