Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he should be a credulous and ignorant fanatic whose prevailing moods are fear, hatred, adulation, and orgiastic triumph. In other words it is necessary that he should have the mentality appropriate to a state of war. It does not matter whether the war is actually happening, and, since no decisive victory is possible, it does not matter whether the war is going well or badly. All that is needed is that a state of war should exist.

Records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

He had moved from thought to words, and now from words to actions.

In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards.

We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull.

I have the most evil memories of Spain, but I have very few bad memories of Spaniards.