The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental , nor do they result from from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink

An earthquake is such fun when it is over.

In this game that we're playing, we can't win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that's all.

Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

Either we all live in a decent world, or nobody does.

People talk about the horrors of war, but what weapon has a man invented that even approaches in cruelty some of the commoner diseases? 'Natural' death, almost by defintion, means something slow, smelly and painful.