War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.

Nothing holds it together except an idea which is indestructible.

It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought...should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent on words.

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.

Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.