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

Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought.

As soon as you think of fishing you think of things that don't belong to the modern world. The very idea of sitting all day under a willow tree beside a quiet pool - and being able to find a quiet pool to sit beside- belongs to a time before the war, before radio, before aeroplanes, before Hitler.

Whoever controls the image and information of the past determines what and how future generations will think; whoever controls the information and images of the present determines how those same people will view the past." "He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past.

The enemies of intellectual liberty always try to present their case as a plea for discipline versus individualism. The issue truth-versus-untruth is as far as possible kept in the background.

Mrs Weaver nosed among the books, too dim-witted to grasp that they were in alphabetical order.

From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned.