To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

Totalitarianism, however, does not so much promise an age of faith as an age of schizophrenia. A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud. Such a society, no matter how long it persists, can never afford to become either tolerant or intellectually stable.

Winston was gelatinous with fatigue.

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

All propaganda is lies, even when one is telling the truth.

This life we live nowadays. It's not life, it's stagnation death-in-life. Look at all these bloody houses and the meaningless people inside them. Sometimes I think we're all corpses. Just rotting upright.