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

It is brought home to you...that it is only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can remain superior.

Reality is inside the skull.

At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.

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.

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

It was with the last revolution and the coming of INGSOC (Inglish/English Socialism) that the latest High learnt how to keep their position permanently - by cultivating ignorance among the other classes and by constantly surveying them through the Thought Police. Part of this strategy included the maintenance of a state of continual warfare, which Goldstein discussed in the third chapter. The three major powers were not fighting this perpetual war for victory; they were fighting to keep a state of emergency always present as the surest guarantee of authoritarianism.