Oceania was at war with Eurasia therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.
war
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
history & truth
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
power
Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.
good
Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
power
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
freedom
Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
funny
No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
equality
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
men
War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.
war
Serious sport is war minus the shooting.
war
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
freedom , peace , strength & war
To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
war
The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
best
War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.
good & war
There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.
intelligence
Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
patriotism
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
time & truth
A family with the wrong members in control that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.
family
Four legs good, two legs bad.
good
War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.
war
As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.
religion
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
good & time
Good writing is like a windowpane.
good
Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
war
No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
truth
The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
war
We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
food
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
happiness & men
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
war
He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.
God
Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.
good & men
Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.
men
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
intelligence & men
Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
society
For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.
truth
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
war
I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
education
We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
men
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
future
Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
power
Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
happiness
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
freedom
The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
time
Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
age
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
future & imagination
In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
time
There is science, logic, reason there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.
174 more sayings about experience
I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.
165 more quotes regarding future
No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.
199 more wisdom & wit about freedom
The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.
199 thoughts about freedom
All experience is an arch, to build upon.
174 other quotes relating to experience
In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
174 other quotes regarding experience
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
174 wisdom & wit about experience
Don't be afraid of failure be afraid of petty success.
141 other quotes about failure
Fear is the foundation of most governments.
270 more quotes relating to fear
Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.
24 more sayings relating to fitness
If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all.
24 quotes relating to fitness
It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
199 more quotes about freedom
Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.
199 wisdom & wit about freedom
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
204 thoughts about education
A thick skin is a gift from God.
396 more quotes about God
Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.
165 sayings relating to future
For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.
240 thoughts about faith
Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
199 quotes regarding freedom
A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
184 wisdom & wit about government
If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after.
79 views about food
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
421 more quotes regarding good
Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
240 views about faith
Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
174 wisdom & wit relating to experience
Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.
174 more quotes relating to experience
Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.
340 sayings about happiness
He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.
141 more thoughts regarding failure
Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.
141 views about failure
They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.
141 other quotes about failure
Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.
86 thoughts relating to family
Forget the past - the future will give you plenty to worry about.
165 thoughts about future
I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
43 views about equality
Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.
240 quotes regarding faith
Common sense is the measure of the possible it is composed of experience and prevision it is calculation applied to life.
174 thoughts about experience
Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
199 quotes about freedom
When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether.
135 quotes regarding dreams
If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear.
270 wisdom & wit regarding fear
An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.
270 more sayings about fear
Failure is impossible.
141 quotes regarding failure
Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.
240 quotes about faith
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
43 views about forgiveness
I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.
163 quotes about friendship
By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.
174 sayings about experience
You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.
43 quotes relating to equality
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
270 thoughts relating to fear
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.
204 views about education
Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.
91 wisdom & wit relating to health
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
270 thoughts relating to fear