The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.

In places this book is a little over-written, because Mr Blunden is no more able to resist a quotation than some people are to refuse a drink.

Now he had recognized himself as a dead man it became important to stay alive as long as possible.

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

The primary aim of modern warfare ... is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living.

It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought...should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent on words.

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