Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

Rich people are poor people with money.

Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey.

In Oceania at the present day, Science, in the old sense, has almost ceased to exist. In Newspeak there is no word for 'Science.' The empirical method of thought, on which all the scientific achievements of the past were founded, is opposed to the most fundamental principles of Ingsoc.

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

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.

If you have no money, men won't care for you, women won't love you; won't, that is, care for you or love you the last little bit that matters.