And if our book consumption remains as low as it has been, at least let us admit that it is because reading is a less exciting pastime than going to the dogs, the pictures or the pub, and not because books, whether bought or borrowed, are too expensive.

In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards.

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.

What happens to you here is forever.

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

The weariness of the cell is the vigour of the organism.

The Party is not interested in the overt act. The thought is all we care about.