Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought.

The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.

All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

And it is a great thing to die in your own bed, though it is better still to die in your boots.