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.

There is no test of literary merit except survival, which is itself an index to majority opinion.

There were sins that were too subtle to be explained, and there were others that were too terrible to be clearly mentioned. For example, there was sex, which was always smouldering just under the surface and which suddenly blew up into a tremendous row when I was about twelve.

In all the modern talk about energy, efficiency, social service and the rest of it, what meaning is there except "Get money, get it legally, and get a lot of it"? Money has become the grand test of virtue.

There is only one way to make money at writing, and that is to marry a publisher's daughter.

Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies 'something not desirable.'