The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped.

You believe that reality is something objective, external, existing in its own right. You also believe that the nature of reality is self-evident. When you delude yourself into thinking that you see something, you assume that everyone else sees the same thing as you. But I tell you, Winston, that 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 Paty, which is collective and immortal.

The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.

People invent new machines and improve existing ones almost unconsciously, rather as a Somnambulist will go walking in his sleep. The interesting puzzle in our times is that we so willingly sleepwalk through the process of reconstituting the conditions of human existence.

The primary aim of modern warfare ... is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living.

Good writing is like a windowpane.

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