If you are a man, Winston, you are the last man.

Real journalism is publishing something that somebody else does not want published - the rest is just public relations.

If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.

A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud.

Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes: only in the mind of the Party, which is collective and immortal.

Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

Sanity is not statistical.