Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.

What is not hereditary cannot be permanent.

A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud.

All nationalistic distinctions - all claims to be better than somebody else because you have a different-shaped skull or speak a different dialect - are entirely spurious, but they are important so long as people believe in them.

Do you know why you’re here? Shall I tell you why we brought you here? To cure you.To make you sane.

A dirty joke is not, of course, a serious attack on morality, but it is a sort of mental rebellion, a momentary wish that things were otherwise.