Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.

You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.

The upper class desire to remain so, the middle class wish to overthrow the upper class, and the lower class want a classless system.

The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.

Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.

Every war, when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking - not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.