War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

If he thinks he floats off the floor, and if I simultaneously think I see him do it, then the thing happens.

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

The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth.

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?

The citizen of Oceania is not allowed to know anything of the tenets of the other two philosophies, but he is taught to execrate them as barbarous outrages upon morality and common sense. Actually, the three philosophies are barely distinguishable.

England will still be England, an everlasting animal, stretching into the future and the past and like all living things having the power to change out of all recognition and yet remain the same.