The Party is not interested in the overt act. The thought is all we care about.

"A minority of one"... the definition of insanity.

We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

Huge events like the Ukraine famine of 1933, involving the deaths of millions of people, have actually escaped the attention of the majority of English russophiles.

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.

Pessimism is reactionary because it makes the very idea of improving the world impossible.