Preventive war is a crime not easily committed by a country that retains any traces of democracy.

Bad writers are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones.

I would sooner be a foreigner in Spain than in most countries. How easy it is to make friends in Spain!

In Oceania at the present day, Science, in the old sense, has almost ceased to exist. In Newspeak there is no word for 'Science.' The empirical method of thought, on which all the scientific achievements of the past were founded, is opposed to the most fundamental principles of Ingsoc.

The human beings did not hate Animal Farm any less now that it was prospering; indeed, they hated it more than ever.

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing

The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.