But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.

Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished forever.

A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud.

Using clichés is a substitute for thinking

Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy

All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.