It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as your income falls below a certain level.

The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.

I have no wish to take life, not even human life

It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as well as here. And the people under the sky were also very much the same--everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just like this, people ignorant of one another's existence, held apart by walls of hatred and lies, and yet almost exactly the same--people who had never learned to think but were storing up in their hearts and bellies and muscles the power that would one day overturn the world.

All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.

When one watches some tired hack on the platform mechanically repeating the familiar phrases - bestial atrocities, iron heel, blood-stained tyranny, free peoples of the world, stand shoulder to shoulder - one often has a curious feeling that one is not watching a live human being but some kind of dummy, the appropriate noises are coming out of his larynx, but his brain is not involved

However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.