George Orwell

Ignorance is strength.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

The object of terror is terror. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?

Orthodoxy means not thinking - not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.

Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

I am afraid I have nothing to say about the war, except that it is going to happen.

The smell of her sweat was like the smell of honey.

I am not a real novelist anyway.

The truth is, many people actually enjoy war.

I have a sort of belly-to-earth attitude and always have had.

The human body is ugly and disgusting.

I am not a piece of cheese.

The world is a raft sailing through space with, potentially, plenty of provisions for everybody.

The object of power is power.

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.

The greatest enemy of truth is very often not the lie—deliberate, contrived and dishonest—but the myth—persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.