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

It [England] is a family in which the young are generally thwarted and most of the power is in the hands of irresponsible uncles and bedridden aunts.

A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses.

There is a minority of gifted, willfuf people who are determined to live their own lives to the end, and writers belong in this class.

There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word-- Man

There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always— do not forget this, Winston— always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face— forever.

The primary aim of modern warfare ... is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living.