I watched him [a 'fat Russian agent'] with some interest, for it was the first time that I had seen a person whose profession was telling lies -- unless one counts journalists.

Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.

Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip.

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

Some things ARE true, even though the party says they are true.

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.