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.

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

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.

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

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.

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