Happiness can only exist in acceptance.

I am well acquainted with all the arguments against freedom of thought and speech - the arguments which claim that it cannot exist, and the arguments which claim that it ought not to. I answer simply that they don't convince me and that our civilization over a period of four hundred years has been founded on the opposite notice.

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

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Good writing is like a windowpane.

There is a minority of gifted, willfuf people who are determined to live their own lives to the end, and writers belong in this class.

The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of independent thought. There are therefore two great problems which the Party is concerned to solve. One is how to discover, against his will, what another human being is thinking, and the other is how to kill several hundred million people in a few seconds without giving warning beforehand.