The major problem of our time is the decay in the belief in personal immortality, and it cannot be dealt with while the average human being is either drudging like an ox or shivering in fear of the secret police... How right [the working classes] are to realize that the belly comes before the soul, not in the scale of values but in point of time!

She was very young...she still expected something from life, she did not understand that to push an inconvenient person over a cliff solves nothing.

Today there were fear, hatred, and pain, but no dignity of emotion, no deep or complex sorrows.

There were sins that were too subtle to be explained, and there were others that were too terrible to be clearly mentioned. For example, there was sex, which was always smouldering just under the surface and which suddenly blew up into a tremendous row when I was about twelve.

Winston was gelatinous with fatigue.

Four legs gooood, two legs baaad!

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