Sanity is not statistical.

And in the general hardening of outlook that set in ... practices which had been long abandoned ... -- imprisonment without trial, the use of war prisoners as slaves, public executions, torture to extract confessions, the use of hostages and the deportation of whole populations -- not only became common again, but were tolerated and even defended by people who considered themselves enlightened and progressive.

When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys

Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.

they say that time heals all things, they say you can always forget; but the smiles and the tears across the years they twist my heart strings yet!

How could you make appeal to the future when not a trace of you, not even an anonymous word scribbled on a piece of paper, could physically survive?

England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly.