Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.
The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.