If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

True freedom is the right to say something that others don't want to hear.

Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.

Either we all live in a decent world, or nobody does.

I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.

When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don't have to ask whose side I'm on.

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned.

A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses.

The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.

Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.

All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.

However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.

There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language