The secret of a successful restaurant is sharp knives.

Surely, comrades, you don't want Jones back?

Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.

The one certain thing was that death never came at an expected moment.

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. They do not feel any enmity against me as an individual, nor I against them. They are only 'doing their duty'

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?

The Party is not concerned with perpetuating its blood but with perpetuating itself. WHO wields power is not important, provided that the hierarchical structure remains always the same.