The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality.

The citizen of Oceania is not allowed to know anything of the tenets of the other two philosophies, but he is taught to execrate them as barbarous outrages upon morality and common sense. Actually, the three philosophies are barely distinguishable.

There are some situations from which one can only escape by acting like a devil or a lunatic.

The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.

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

All nationalistic distinctions - all claims to be better than somebody else because you have a different-shaped skull or speak a different dialect - are entirely spurious, but they are important so long as people believe in them.