He fell asleep murmuring “Sanity is not statistical,” with the feeling that this remark contained in it a profound wisdom.

The Party is not concerned with perpetuating its blood but with perpetuating itself. Who wields power is not important, provided that the hierarchical structure remains always the same.

Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.”

He loved her and would not betray her; but that was only a fact, known as he knew the rules of arithmetic.

the Party rejects and vilifies every principle for which the Socialist movement originally stood, and it chooses to do this in the name of Socialism.

Even the one plan that was practicable, suicide, they had no intention of carrying out. To hang on from day to day and from week to week, spinning out a present that had no future, seemed an unconquerable instinct, just as one’s lungs will always draw the next breath so long as there is air available.

Winston. Even before he had taken it he knew by the smell

Perhaps the Brotherhood existed after all! Perhaps the girl was part of it!

At one time it had been a sign of madness to believe that the earth goes round the sun; today, to believe that the past is unalterable. He might be alone in holding that belief, and if alone, then a lunatic. But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong.