Book: One thousand nine hundred eighty four. Page 3

No one will read him endless letters, but it is intended for a certain person.

To see what's happening right in front of your nose, you need to fight desperately.

Every writer who gets under the banner of the party, sooner or later faces a choice - either to submit, or shut up.

Many people feel at ease in a foreign land, only despising the indigenous population.

In any society, ordinary people should live in defiance of the existing order of things.

And if all others accepted the lie which the party imposed-if all records of one and the same tale-then the lie passed into history and became truth.

Now that he realized that he was dead, it is important to live as long as possible.

... humanity is facing a choice: freedom or happiness, and for the vast majority, happiness was better.

... the mind he had surrendered, but the soul hoped to keep intact.

He could no longer fight against the party. Furthermore, the party law. It must be so; how could the immortal, collective wrong brain? By what external standard could you check its judgements?

...power is power over people, over the body, but most importantly - the mind. Power over matter - external reality, as you would call it - doesn't matter.

What can you do, thought Winston, against the lunatic who is more intelligent than you, who is impartial to listen to your arguments and then simply persists in his lunacy?

These other questioners saw to it that he was in constant slight pain, but no pain was their main tool. They slapped his cheeks, twisted his ears, pulled his hair, forced to stand on one foot, was not released to urinate, kept under a bright light, so he had watery eyes; however, this was done only to humiliate him and deprive of the ability to argue and reason.

...the subtlest practitioners of doublethink are those who invented doublethink and know that it is a vast system of mental cheating. In our society those who are best informed about what is happening, the least able to see the world for what it is. In General, the greater the understanding the greater the delusion: the more intelligent, the less sane.