The enemies of intellectual liberty always try to present their case as a plea for discipline versus individualism. The issue truth-versus-untruth is as far as possible kept in the background.

He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.

It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda tours.

There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language

Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power.

There is no test of literary merit except survival, which is itself an index to majority opinion.

All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.