Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than ribbons?

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power.

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.

Scientific education for the masses will do little good, and probably a lot of harm, if it simply boils down to more physics, more chemistry, more biology, etc to the detriment of literature and history. Its probable effect on the average human being would be to narrow the range of his thoughts and make him more than ever contemptuous of such knowledge as he did not possess.

It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.