By revolution we become more ourselves, not less.

A Socialist United States of Europe seems to me the only worth-while political objective today

All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery.

If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and do know better.

A scrupulous writer in every sentence that he writes will ask himself. . . What am I trying to say? What words will express it?...And he probably asks himself. . . Could I put it more shortly? But you are not obliged to go to all this trouble. You can shirk it by simply throwing open your mind and letting the ready-made phrases come crowding in. They will construct your sentences for you

You asked me once,' said O'Brien, 'what was in Room 101. I told you that you knew the answer already. Everyone knows it. The thing that is in Room 101 is the worst thing in the world.

Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.