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.

This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.

We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now.

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

Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.

If I had understood the situation a bit better I should probably have joined the Anarchists.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.