The machine has got to be accepted, but it is probably better to accept it rather as one accepts a drug - that is, grudgingly and suspiciously. Like a drug, the machine is useful, dangerous, and habit-forming. The oftener one surrenders to it the tighter its grip becomes.

Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

There is only one way to make money at writing, and that is to marry a publisher's daughter.

To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.

Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power.

Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.

Totalitarianism, if not fought against, could triumph anywhere.