If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.

The words democracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realistic, justice have each of them several different meanings which cannot be reconciled with one another.

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

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

... what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be told truthfully.

Winston was gelatinous with fatigue.

Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them. There is almost no kind of outrage-torture, imprisonment without trial, assassination, the bombing of civilians-which does not change its moral color when it is committed by 'our' side. The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.