The object of power is power.

Records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth.

You are a slow learner, Winston." "How can I help it? How can I help but see what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four." "Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.

Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.

Sanity is not statistical.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

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.