Rich people are poor people with money.

It's not so much staying alive, it's staying human that's important. What counts is that we don't betray each other.

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. They do not feel any enmity against me as an individual, nor I against them. They are only 'doing their duty'

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped.

Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up.

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