It is brought home to you...that it is only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can remain superior.

As soon as you think of fishing you think of things that don't belong to the modern world. The very idea of sitting all day under a willow tree beside a quiet pool - and being able to find a quiet pool to sit beside- belongs to a time before the war, before radio, before aeroplanes, before Hitler.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.

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

They clichés will construct your sentences for you - even think your thoughts for you, to a certain extent - and at need they will perform the important service of partially concealing your meaning even from yourself.

Winston could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war...war had literally been continuous, though strictly speaking it had not always been the same war. The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil.