The whole idea of revenge and punishment is a childish day-dream. Properly speaking, there is no such thing as revenge. Revenge is an act which you want to commit when you are powerless and because you are powerless: as soon as the sense of impotence is removed, the desire evaporates also.

All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.

It was soon noticed that when ever there was work to be done the cat could never be found.

A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature

they say that time heals all things, they say you can always forget; but the smiles and the tears across the years they twist my heart strings yet!

Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes: only in the mind of the Party, which is collective and immortal.

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.