The one certain thing was that death never came at an expected moment.

The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of independent thought. There are therefore two great problems which the Party is concerned to solve. One is how to discover, against his will, what another human being is thinking, and the other is how to kill several hundred million people in a few seconds without giving warning beforehand.

Human beings were behaving as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine.

Bad writers are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones.

Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy

To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone— to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone: From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink — greetings!

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.