The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies 'something not desirable.'

It's not so much staying alive, it's staying human that's important. What counts is that we don't betray each other.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

Between pigs and human beings there was not and there need not be any clash of interest whatsoever.

I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.

Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own unorthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened.

The Party is not interested in the overt act. The thought is all we care about.