To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments.

Totalitarianism, if not fought against, could triumph anywhere.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes: only in the mind of the Party, which is collective and immortal.

Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.

Whoever controls the image and information of the past determines what and how future generations will think; whoever controls the information and images of the present determines how those same people will view the past." "He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past.