And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.

Real power is achieved when the ruling class controls the material essentials of life, granting and withholding them from the masses as if they were privileges.

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

All men are enemies. All animals are comrades

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies 'something not desirable.'

The major problem of our time is the decay in the belief in personal immortality, and it cannot be dealt with while the average human being is either drudging like an ox or shivering in fear of the secret police... How right [the working classes] are to realize that the belly comes before the soul, not in the scale of values but in point of time!