Think of something you really care about. Then add hour to hour and calculate the fraction of your life that you've actually spent in doing it. And then calculate the time you've spent on things like shaving, riding to and fro on buses, waiting in railway junctions, swapping dirty stories, and reading the newspapers.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things, but over men

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

All nationalistic distinctions - all claims to be better than somebody else because you have a different-shaped skull or speak a different dialect - are entirely spurious, but they are important so long as people believe in them.

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.