Society and the World

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

The Lottery, with its weekly pay-out of enormous prizes, was the one public event to which the proles paid serious attention

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

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

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

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

Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

Old maids biking to Holy Communion through the mists of the autumn mornings … these are not only fragments, but characteristic fragments, of the English scene.

Four legs good, two legs bad.

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

I am I plus my surroundings, and if I do not preserve the latter I do not preserve myself.

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing.

I brought myself down. I gave them a sword.

When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.

There can be no whitewash at the White House.

I welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook.

At the base of all these aristocratic races the predator is not to be mistaken, the splendorous blond beast, avidly rampant for plunder and victory.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

I teach you the superman. Man is something to be surpassed.

I don’t know what I may seem to the world, but as to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Hypotheses non fingo.