Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.

In this game that we're playing, we can't win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that's all.

It was given out that the animals there practised cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common. This was what came of rebelling against the laws of Nature, Frederick and Pilkington said.

The urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever.

Sheer egoism... Writers share this characteristic with scientists, artists, politicians, lawyers, soldiers, successful businessmen - in short, with the whole top crust of humanity.

Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?