"The Ministry of Truth, which concerned itself with news, entertainment, education, and fine arts. The Ministry
of Peace, which concerned itself with war. The Ministry of Love, which maintained law and order. And the Ministry
of Plenty, which was responsible for economic affairs."
"nothing was illegal, since there were no longer any laws."
"audience shouting with laughter as he sank."
"He was abusing Big Brother, he was denouncing the dictatorship of the Party, he was demanding the
immediate conclusion of peace with Eurasia, he was advocating freedom of speech, freedom of press, freedom of assembly, freedom
of thought, he was crying hysterically that the revolution had been betrayed--and all this is rapid polysyllabic speech which
was a sort of parody of the habitual style of the orators of the Party."
"A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledgehammer, seemed
to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one's will into a grimacing,
screaming lunatic."
"And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion could be switched from one object
to another like the flame of a blowlamp."
"...and at such moments his heart went out to the lonely, derided heretic on the screen, sole guardian of truth and sanity
in a world of lies."
"You were abolished, annihilated: vaporized was the usual word."
"What certainty had he that a single human creature now living was on his side?"
"Always the eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you."
"Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters inside your skull."
"How could you make appeal to the future when not a trace of you, not even an anonymous word scribbled
on a piece of paper, could physically survive?"
"He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear."
"That was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconciousness, and then, once again,
to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed."
