. . . it is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in secret. One should live with the stream of life, not against it.

The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.

Free speech is my right to say what you don't want to hear.

To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulne­ss while telling carefully constructe­d lies, to hold simultaneo­usly two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradict­ory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy.

The upper class desire to remain so, the middle class wish to overthrow the upper class, and the lower class want a classless system.

At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.

The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule, between good and evil but between two evils.