Four legs good, two legs bad.

If you are a man, Winston, you are the last man.

If he thinks he floats off the floor, and if I simultaneously think I see him do it, then the thing happens.

I am well acquainted with all the arguments against freedom of thought and speech - the arguments which claim that it cannot exist, and the arguments which claim that it ought not to. I answer simply that they don't convince me and that our civilization over a period of four hundred years has been founded on the opposite notice.

It was not the man's brain that was speaking; it was his larynx.

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.