A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power.

The Penguin books are splendid value for sixpence, so splendid that if other publishers had any sense they would combine against them and suppress them.

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

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.

Is not anyone with any degree of mental honesty conscious of telling lies all day long, both in talking and writing, simply because lies will fall into artistic shape when truth will not?

Either we all live in a decent world, or nobody does.