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.

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

For the future. For the unborn.

Between pigs and human beings there was not and there need not be any clash of interest whatsoever.

All nationalistic distinctions - all claims to be better than somebody else because you have a different-shaped skull or speak a different dialect - are entirely spurious, but they are important so long as people believe in them.

The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies 'something not desirable.'