The important thing is not to stay alive but to stay human.
Freedom of speech is saying what people don't want to hear.
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.
In the long run, a hierarchical society would only be possible based on poverty and ignorance.
Power is not a means, but an end in itself.
It is impossible to found a civilization on fear, hatred, and cruelty. It would not endure.
Power is not a means, Winston. A dictatorship is not established to safeguard a revolution; the revolution is made to establish a dictatorship. The goal of power is power.
Freedom is being able to say freely that two and two make four. If this is granted, everything else will follow in its steps.
Nothing would change as long as power remained in the hands of a privileged minority.
If who controls the past, controls the future, who controls the present, controls the past?
We have fallen so low that the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of an intelligent man.