During five literary generations every enlightened person had despised him, and at the end of that time nine-tenths of those enlightened persons are forgotten and Kipling is in some sense still there.

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.

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

In Oceania at the present day, Science, in the old sense, has almost ceased to exist. In Newspeak there is no word for 'Science.' The empirical method of thought, on which all the scientific achievements of the past were founded, is opposed to the most fundamental principles of Ingsoc.

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

The secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one’s own infallibility with a power to learn from past mistakes.

He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.