The end was contained in the beginning.

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

Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up.

Every war, when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

For the future. For the unborn.

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

A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one's will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic. And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp.