If you have no money, men won't care for you, women won't love you; won't, that is, care for you or love you the last little bit that matters.

Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.

A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature

Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else,and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit.

You asked me once,' said O'Brien, 'what was in Room 101. I told you that you knew the answer already. Everyone knows it. The thing that is in Room 101 is the worst thing in the world.