“Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.”

Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.

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

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

Sanity is not statistical.

Sanity is not statistical.

Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

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

Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose

If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.