All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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.
Big Brother is watching you.
All men are enemies. All animals are comrades.
In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.
A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.
Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime is death.
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
The smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to have got inside him, or into the air all round him. She had become a physical necessity.
Those who ‘abjure’ violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
All art is propaganda; on the other hand, not all propaganda is art.
Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
The more intelligent, the less sane.
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.