Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.
He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?
Political language -- and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists -- is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.