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.
For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if...
Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is possible that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never had much temptation to be human beings.
No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.
A family with the wrong members in control that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
Here one comes upon an all-important English trait: the respect for constituitionalism and legality, the belief in 'the law' as something above the state and above the individual, something which is c...
Oceania was at war with Eurasia therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.
[T]he imagination, like certain wild animals, will not breed in captivity.
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.
The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
Writing a novel is agony.