All propaganda is lies, even when one is telling the truth.

Within any important issue, there are always aspects no one wishes to discuss.

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Most revolutionaries are potential Tories, because they imagine that everything can be put right by altering the shape of society; once that change is effected, as it sometimes is, they see no need for any other.

The slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.

Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he should be a credulous and ignorant fanatic whose prevailing moods are fear, hatred, adulation, and orgiastic triumph. In other words it is necessary that he should have the mentality appropriate to a state of war. It does not matter whether the war is actually happening, and, since no decisive victory is possible, it does not matter whether the war is going well or badly. All that is needed is that a state of war should exist.