No one is patriotic about taxes.

In moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against one's own body.

Today there were fear, hatred, and pain, but no dignity of emotion, no deep or complex sorrows.

When you meet anyone in the flesh you realize immediately that he is a human being and not a sort of caricature embodying certain ideas. It is partly for this reason that I don't mix much in literary circles, because I know from experience that once I have met and spoken to anyone I shall never again be able to feel any intellectual brutality towards him, even when I feel I ought to - like the Labour M.P.s who get patted on the back by dukes and are lost forever more.

The truth, it is felt, becomes untruth when your enemy utters it.

The more intelligent, the less sane

It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought...should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent on words.