But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength, would have no need to conspire. They needed only to rise up and shake themselves like a horse shaking off flies. If they chose they could blow the Party to pieces tomorrow morning. Surely sooner or later it must occur to them to do it? And yet --!

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.

The enemies of intellectual liberty always try to present their case as a plea for discipline versus individualism. The issue truth-versus-untruth is as far as possible kept in the background.

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

The secret of a successful restaurant is sharp knives.

We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right.