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

If he thinks he floats off the floor, and if I simultaneously think I see him do it, then the thing happens.

Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable of love, or friendship, or joy of living, or laughter, or curiosity, or courage, or integrity. You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty and then we shall fill you with ourselves.

Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.

Money, money, all is money! Could you write even a penny novelette without money to put heart in you?

The problem was how to keep the wheels of industry turning without increasing the real wealth of the world. Goods must be produced, but they must not be distributed. And in practice the only way of achieving this was by continuous warfare.

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.