Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxwork displays, film shows, telescreen programs all had to be organized; stands had to be erected, effigies built, slogans coined, songs written, rumours circulated, photographs faked.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking - not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

Why should be fruit be held inferior to the flower?

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.