Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

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

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.

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.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

Those who abjure violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.