We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull.

They clichés will construct your sentences for you - even think your thoughts for you, to a certain extent - and at need they will perform the important service of partially concealing your meaning even from yourself.

Why should be fruit be held inferior to the flower?

Freedom is the right to tell others what they don't want to hear.

Last of all came the cat, who looked round, as usual, for the warmest place, and finally squeezed herself in between Boxer and Clover; there she purred contentedly throughout Major's speech without listening to a word of what he was saying.

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

From the proletarians nothing is to be feared. Left to themselves, they will continue from generation to generation and from century to century, working, breeding, and dying, not only without any impulse to rebel, but without the power of grasping that the world could be other than it is.