One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense over sensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting.

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

The machine has got to be accepted, but it is probably better to accept it rather as one accepts a drug - that is, grudgingly and suspiciously. Like a drug, the machine is useful, dangerous, and habit-forming. The oftener one surrenders to it the tighter its grip becomes.

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word-- Man

In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.