One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.

The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.

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

Tragedy, he precieved, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there were still privacy, love, and friendship, and when the members of a family stood by one another without needing to know the reason.

Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.