Between pigs and human beings there was not and there need not be any clash of interest whatsoever.

Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.

I have no wish to take life, not even human life

In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible... Thus, political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging, and sheer cloudy vagueness... Political language [is] designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.

In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer.

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.

England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly.