To hang on from day to day and from week to week, spinning out a present that had no future, seemed an unconquerable instinct, just as one's lungs will always draw the next breath so long as there is air available.

He loved Big Brother.

Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power.

No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid; but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid.

It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.

Today there were fear, hatred, and pain, but no dignity of emotion, no deep or complex sorrows.

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