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.

He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.

No one I met at this time -- doctors, nurses, practicantes, or fellow-patients -- failed to assure me that a man who is hit through the neck and survives it is the luckiest creature alive. I could not help thinking that it would be even luckier not to be hit at all.

From the proletarians nothing is to be feared. Left to themselves, they will continue from generation to generation and from century to century, working, breeding, and dying, not only without any impulse to rebel, but without the power of grasping that the world could be other than it is.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

He would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies.

Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose