What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

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

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

In our age there is no such thing as keeping out of politics. All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.