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

There are some things only intellectuals are crazy enough to believe.

But the thing that I saw in your face no power can disinherit: No bomb that ever burst shatters the crystal spirit.

Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.

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

There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live-did live, from habit that became instinct-in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.

It is brought home to you...that it is only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can remain superior.