“In our age there is no such thing as “keeping out of politics.” All issues are political issues.”
“We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.”
“At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.”
“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
“To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.”
“The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.”
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
“The object of power is power.”
“Big Brother is watching you.”
“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
“An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned.”
“The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.”
“Life must be lived forwards and understood backwards.”
“Every beloved object is the center of a paradise.”
“We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.”
“Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”