Quotes

Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.

In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane.

If one is to rule, and to continue ruling, one must be able to dislocate the sense of reality.

For the secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one's own infallibility with the Power to learn from past mistakes.

Left to themselves, they will continoue from generation to generation and from century to century, working, breeding, and dying, not only without any impulse to rebel, but without the power of grasping that the world could be other than it is.

From the point of view of the Low, no hiatoric change has ever meant much more than a change in the name of their masters.

The best books, are those that tell you what you know already.

A peace that was truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war

The consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable condition of survival.

It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which wealth, in the sense of personal possessions and luxuries, should be evenly distributed, while power remained in the hands of a small privileged caste. But in practice such a society could not long remain stable. For if leisure and security were enjoyablebl by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realize that the priviliged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away.

It's always one bloody war after another, and one knows the news is all lies anyway.

In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it.

Proles and animals are free.