Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia. George Orwell War
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting. George Orwell Sports
In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. George Orwell Politics
Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell. George Orwell Good
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. George Orwell Power
We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun. George Orwell Food
No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy. George Orwell Truth
Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion. George Orwell Funny
There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them. George Orwell Intelligence
Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. George Orwell Power
It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning. George Orwell Fear
As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents. George Orwell Religion
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history. George Orwell History