We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

The Party is not concerned with perpetuating its blood but with perpetuating itself. WHO wields power is not important, provided that the hierarchical structure remains always the same.

Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are.

In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.

In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards.

Rifles, muskets, long-bows and hand-grenades are inherently democratic weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon - so long as there is no answer to it - gives claws to the weak.