We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

You are a slow learner, Winston." "How can I help it? How can I help but see what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four." "Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.

Football, a game in which everyone gets hurt and every nation has its own style of play which seems unfair to foreigners.

Even through the shut window pane, the world looked cold.

Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them. There is almost no kind of outrage-torture, imprisonment without trial, assassination, the bombing of civilians-which does not change its moral color when it is committed by 'our' side. The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.