Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.

The mutability of the past is the central tenet of Ingsoc. Past events, it is argued, have no objective existance, but survive only in written records and in human memories. The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon. And since the Party is in full control of all records, and in equally full control of the minds of its members, it follows that the past is whatever the Party chooses to make it.

Before the war, and especially before the Boer War, it was summer all the year round.

To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.

For, when you are approaching poverty, you make one discovery which outweighs some of the others. You discover boredom and mean complications and the beginnings of hunger, but you also discover the great redeeming feature of poverty: the fact that it annihilates the future. Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.