Do you know why you’re here? Shall I tell you why we brought you here? To cure you.To make you sane.

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.

To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes.