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

In Oceania at the present day, Science, in the old sense, has almost ceased to exist. In Newspeak there is no word for 'Science.' The empirical method of thought, on which all the scientific achievements of the past were founded, is opposed to the most fundamental principles of Ingsoc.

If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.

That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.

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

...every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures.

A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.