All men are enemies. All animals are comrades

Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes: only in the mind of the Party, which is collective and immortal.

When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don't have to ask whose side I'm on.

All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

Now he had recognized himself as a dead man it became important to stay alive as long as possible.

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.