Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished forever.

The primary aim of modern warfare ... is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living.

Except for the small revolutionary groups which exist in all countries, the whole world was determined upon preventing revolution in Spain. In particular the Communist Party, with Soviet Russia behind it, had thrown its whole weight against the revolution. It was the Communist thesis that revolution at this stage would be fatal and that what was to be aimed at in Spain was not workers' control, but bourgeois democracy. It hardly needs pointing out why 'liberal' capitalist opinion took the same line.

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip.

It is deliberate policy to keep even the favoured groups somewhere near the brink of hardship, because a general state of scarcity increases the importance of small privileges and thus magnifies the distinction between one group and another.

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.