History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.

I have the most evil memories of Spain, but I have very few bad memories of Spaniards.

The pleasures of spring are available to everybody and cost nothing.

Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip.

The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.

In Oceania at the present day, Science, in the old sense, has almost ceased to exist. In Newspeak there is no word for 'Science.' The empirical method of thought, on which all the scientific achievements of the past were founded, is opposed to the most fundamental principles of Ingsoc.

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.