There is no such thing as a naval dictatorship.

... ages in which the dominant weapon is expensive or difficult to make will tend to be ages of despotism, whereas when the dominant weapon is cheap and simple, the common people have a chance... A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon -- so long as there is no answer to it -- gives claws to the weak.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

"A minority of one"... the definition of insanity.

When I joined the militia I had promised myself to kill one Fascist - after all, if each of us killed one they would soon be extinct.

History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.

No one, at any rate no English writer, has written better about childhood than Dickens. In spite of all the knowledge that has accumulated since, in spite of the fact that children are now comparatively sanely treated, no novelist has shown the same power of entering into the child's point of view.