The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.
In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane.
I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.
Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.[repeated often in the rest of the book]
WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
The end was contained in the beginning.
The consequences of every act are included in the act itself.
The choice for mankind lay between freedom and happiness, and that, for the great bulk of mankind, happiness was better.
Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
