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

Never use a long word where a short one will do.

Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey.

When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don't have to ask whose side I'm on.

How right the working classes are in their "materialism." How right they are to realize that the belly comes before the soul, not in the scale of values but in point of time!

All nationalistic distinctions - all claims to be better than somebody else because you have a different-shaped skull or speak a different dialect - are entirely spurious, but they are important so long as people believe in them.

If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has been told about them is lies. The sealed world in which he lives would be broken, and the fear, hatred and self-righteousness on which his morale depends might evaporate.