The Communism of the English intellectual is something explicable enough. It is the patriotism of the deracinated.

Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country.

By revolution we become more ourselves, not less.

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.

A thing which I regret, and which I will try to remedy some time, is that I have never in my life planted a walnut. Nobody does plant them nowadays-when you see a walnut it is almost invariably an old tree. If you plant a walnut you are planting it for your grandchildren, and who cares a damn for his grandchildren?

Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?