Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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...
War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.
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.
Writing a novel is agony.
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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.
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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...
[T]he imagination, like certain wild animals, will not breed in captivity.
Serious sport is war minus the shooting.
Oceania was at war with Eurasia therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.
Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.