To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible... Thus, political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging, and sheer cloudy vagueness... Political language [is] designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.

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

The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth.

The prime necessities for success in life are money, athleticism, tailor made clothes and a charming smile.

Winston could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war...war had literally been continuous, though strictly speaking it had not always been the same war. The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil.