Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.

To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.

A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?

The citizen of Oceania is not allowed to know anything of the tenets of the other two philosophies, but he is taught to execrate them as barbarous outrages upon morality and common sense. Actually, the three philosophies are barely distinguishable.