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

The secret of a successful restaurant is sharp knives.

However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.

In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.

History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.

A plongeur is a slave, and a wasted slave, doing stupid and largely unnecessary work. He is kept at work, ultimately, because of a vague feeling that he would be dangerous if he had leisure. And educated people, who should be on his side, acquiesce in the process, because they know nothing about him and consequently are afraid of him.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.