They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening

In my opinion nothing has contributed more to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country.

When the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys.He becomes a sort of hollow,posing dummy,the conventional figure of a sahib.For it is the condition of his rule that he shall spend his life in trying to impress the "natives",and so in every crisis he has got to do what the "natives" expect of him.He wears a mask and his face grows to fit it.

The smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to have got inside him, or into the air all round him. She had become a physical necessity.

There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word-- Man

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith—as mysterious as faith itself.