Snobbishness, like hypocrisy, is a check upon behaviour whose value from a social point of view has been underrated.

The smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to have got inside him, or into the air all round him. She had become a physical necessity.

All propaganda is lies, even when one is telling the truth.

History has to move in a certain direction, even if it has to be pushed that way by neurotics.

I'd like to start a religion. That's where the money is.

He examined the chess problem and set out the pieces. It was a tricky ending, involving a couple of knights. 'White to play and mate in two moves.' Winston looked up at the portrait of Big Brother. White always mates, he thought with a sort of cloudy mysticism. Always, without exception, it is so arranged. In no chess problem since the beginning of the world has black ever won. Did it not symbolize the eternal, unvarying triumph of Good over Evil? The huge face gazed back at him, full of calm power. White always mates.

The slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.