Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.

There is no test of literary merit except survival, which is itself an index to majority opinion.

It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.

Last of all came the cat, who looked round, as usual, for the warmest place, and finally squeezed herself in between Boxer and Clover; there she purred contentedly throughout Major's speech without listening to a word of what he was saying.

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

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

The consequences of every act are included in the act itself.