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

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be truthfully written.

Nothing holds it together except an idea which is indestructible.

Men use up their lives in heart-breaking political struggles, or get themselves killed in civil wars, or tortured in the secret prisons of the Gestapo, not in order to establish some central-heated, air-conditioned, strip-lighted Paradise, but because they want a world in which human beings love one another instead of swindling and murdering one another.

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.

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