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

When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on.

Do you know why you’re here? Shall I tell you why we brought you here? To cure you.To make you sane.

The mutability of the past is the central tenet of Ingsoc. Past events, it is argued, have no objective existance, but survive only in written records and in human memories. The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon. And since the Party is in full control of all records, and in equally full control of the minds of its members, it follows that the past is whatever the Party chooses to make it.

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

The words democracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realistic, justice have each of them several different meanings which cannot be reconciled with one another.

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