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.

Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than ribbons?

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

Never have ideas about children, and never have ideas for them.

And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.

The secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one’s own infallibility with a power to learn from past mistakes.

By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only for your reader but for yourself.