There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language

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

[T]he more one is conscious of one's political bias, the more chance one has of acting politically without sacrificing one's aesthetic and intellectual integrity.

The machine has got to be accepted, but it is probably better to accept it rather as one accepts a drug - that is, grudgingly and suspiciously. Like a drug, the machine is useful, dangerous, and habit-forming. The oftener one surrenders to it the tighter its grip becomes.

But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.

To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words.... Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence.

You're only a rebel from the waist downwards,' he told her.