No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.

He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster. He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable

It was not the man's brain that was speaking; it was his larynx.

The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at almost no cost and with almost no trouble, and if the tree takes root it will far outlive the visible effect of any of your other actions, good or evil.

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

The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of independent thought. There are therefore two great problems which the Party is concerned to solve. One is how to discover, against his will, what another human being is thinking, and the other is how to kill several hundred million people in a few seconds without giving warning beforehand.