To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulne­ss while telling carefully constructe­d lies, to hold simultaneo­usly two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradict­ory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy.

If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has been told about them is lies. The sealed world in which he lives would be broken, and the fear, hatred and self-righteousness on which his morale depends might evaporate.

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.

One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.

It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.