"Perhaps one of the most alarming things about totalitarianism is that it is not, as is sometimes imagined, a static tyranny, but a dynamic one."

"Ignorance is strength."

"But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought."

"Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."

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