All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.

The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped.

Never have ideas about children, and never have ideas for them.

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

It's not so much staying alive, it's staying human that's important. What counts is that we don't betray each other.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought.