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

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

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.

Ignorance and prejudice are the ballast of our ship of state - however, ships without ballast are not seaworthy and cannot sail in the tempests, nor reach a safe harbor.

The belly comes before the soul.