I'd like to start a religion. That's where the money is.

Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power.

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.

Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.

It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you.

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

. . . it is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in secret. One should live with the stream of life, not against it.