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.

Four legs gooood, two legs baaad!

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

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

The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule, between good and evil but between two evils.

The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon.

The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. His heart sank as he thought of the enormous power arrayed against him, the ease with which any Party intellectual would overthrow him in debate, the subtle arguments which he would not be able to understand, much less answer. And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right.