We believe half-instinctively that evil always defeats itself in the long run. Pacifism is founded largely on this belief. Don't resist evil, and it will somehow destroy itself. But why should it? What evidence is there that it does... unless conquered from the outside by military force?

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

And it is a great thing to die in your own bed, though it is better still to die in your boots.

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.

Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.

It was given out that the animals there practised cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common. This was what came of rebelling against the laws of Nature, Frederick and Pilkington said.