And the bigger the fall, the bigger the joke. It would be better fun to throw a custard pie at a bishop than at a curate.

It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought...should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent on words.

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside. Has it ever struck you that there's a thin man inside every fat man, just as they say there's a statue inside every block of stone?

Always eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or bed- no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters in your skull.

Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.