All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.

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

He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.

It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith—as mysterious as faith itself.

Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.

Does Big Brother exist?" "Of course he exists. The Party exists. Big Brother is the embodiment of the Party." "Does he exist in the same way as I exist?" "You do not exist.

All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.