But you could not have pure love or pure lust nowadays. No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred. Their embrace had been a battle, the climax a victory. It was a blow struck against the Party. It was a political act.

Happiness can only exist in acceptance.

Apparently nothing will ever teach these people that the other 99 % of the population exist.

He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.

To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.

It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda tours.

The object of powder is powder.