However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.

The stars are a free show; it don’t cost anything to use your eyes

It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.

Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than ribbons?

Surely, comrades, you don't want Jones back?

Envy is a horrible thing. It is unlike all other kinds of suffering in that there is no disguising it, no elevating it into tragedy. It is more than merely painful, it is disgusting.

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 --!