All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.

Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.

Winston could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war...war had literally been continuous, though strictly speaking it had not always been the same war. The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil.

Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are.

Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.

The hospital is the antechamber to the tomb

No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?