Liberate yourselves from everything you know and look with complete innocence at this infinitely improbable thing before you.

A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY.

War is often described as a law of nature-this is not true: Among the lower animals, war is unknown.

Pain was a fascinating horror

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.

Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.

...wordless conditioning is crude and wholesale; cannot bring home the finer distinctions, cannot inculcate the more complex courses of behavior. For that there must be words, but words without reason... Not so much like drops of water, though water, it is true, can wear holes in the hardest granite; rather, drops of liquid sealing-wax, drops that adhere, encrust, incorporate themselves with what they fall on, till finally the rock is all one scarlet blob.