What opinions the masses hold, or do not hold, is looked upon as a matter of indifference. They can be granted intellectual liberty becasue they have no intellect.

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.

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

The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of independent thought. There are therefore two great problems which the Party is concerned to solve. One is how to discover, against his will, what another human being is thinking, and the other is how to kill several hundred million people in a few seconds without giving warning beforehand.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

The slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.

From the proletarians nothing is to be feared. Left to themselves, they will continue from generation to generation and from century to century, working, breeding, and dying, not only without any impulse to rebel, but without the power of grasping that the world could be other than it is.