The stars are a free show; it don’t cost anything to use your eyes

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

. . . it is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in secret. One should live with the stream of life, not against it.

To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone— to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone: From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink — greetings!