All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

If I had understood the situation a bit better I should probably have joined the Anarchists.

It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness. Life, if you looked about you, bore no resemblance not only to the lies that streamed out of the telescreens, but even to the ideals that the party was trying to achieve.

There are some situations from which one can only escape by acting like a devil or a lunatic.

Writing a novel is agony.

The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental , nor do they result from from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink

What is not hereditary cannot be permanent.