The human beings did not hate Animal Farm any less now that it was prospering; indeed, they hated it more than ever.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

In Oceania at the present day, Science, in the old sense, has almost ceased to exist. In Newspeak there is no word for 'Science.' The empirical method of thought, on which all the scientific achievements of the past were founded, is opposed to the most fundamental principles of Ingsoc.

To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone— to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone: From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink — greetings!

If you have no money, men won't care for you, women won't love you; won't, that is, care for you or love you the last little bit that matters.

Football, a game in which everyone gets hurt and every nation has its own style of play which seems unfair to foreigners.

I would sooner be a foreigner in Spain than in most countries. How easy it is to make friends in Spain!