War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

You asked me once,' said O'Brien, 'what was in Room 101. I told you that you knew the answer already. Everyone knows it. The thing that is in Room 101 is the worst thing in the world.

True freedom is the right to say something that others don't want to hear.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality.

Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct; nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary.

The heresy of heresies was common sense.