On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

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

There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word-- Man

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

Even through the shut window pane, the world looked cold.

[Political] prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house.

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.