All men are enemies. All animals are comrades

We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future.

The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.

What opinions the masses hold, or do not hold, is looked upon as a matter of indifference. They can be granted intellectual liberty becasue they have no intellect.

Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxwork displays, film shows, telescreen programs all had to be organized; stands had to be erected, effigies built, slogans coined, songs written, rumours circulated, photographs faked.

The pleasures of spring are available to everybody and cost nothing.

When I joined the militia I had promised myself to kill one Fascist - after all, if each of us killed one they would soon be extinct.