Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.

The most stirring battle-poem in English is about a brigade of cavalry which charged in the wrong direction.

The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things, but over men

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.

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

[...] you can get anything in this world if you genuinely don't want it.