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.

You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves.

If you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor. You can keep on with your books and your ideas. You just got to say to yourself, "I'm a free man in here" - he tapped his forehead - "and you're all right.

It is brought home to you...that it is only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can remain superior.

To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.

It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them, and you can stand it. It takes off a lot of anxiety.

The pleasures of spring are available to everybody and cost nothing.