Human beings were behaving as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine.

Is not anyone with any degree of mental honesty conscious of telling lies all day long, both in talking and writing, simply because lies will fall into artistic shape when truth will not?

Winston could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war...war had literally been continuous, though strictly speaking it had not always been the same war. The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil.

I felt as if I was the only person awake in a city of sleepwalkers. That's an illusion, of course. When you walk through a crowd of strangers it's next door to impossible not to imagine that they're all waxworks, but probably they're thinking just the same about you.

Weakness is strength.

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

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.