He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable.

But the thing that I saw in your face no power can disinherit: No bomb that ever burst shatters the crystal spirit.

The Party is not interested in the overt act. The thought is all we care about.

...the consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable condition of survival.

The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking - not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

Gordon eyed them with inert hatred. At this moment he hated all books, and novels most of all. Horrible to think of all that soggy, half-baked trash massed together in one place.

There are some situations from which one can only escape by acting like a devil or a lunatic.