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Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?

Saya akan lebih cepat menjadi orang asing di Spanyol dari pada di sebagian besar negara lain. Betapa mudahnya untuk berteman di Spanyol!

Ini adalah salah satu tragedi setengah terdidik yang terlambat mereka kembangkan, ketika mereka sudah berkomitmen terhadap cara hidup yang salah.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.

For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

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

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

Situasi yang tragis ada tepat ketika kebaikan tidak menang tetapi ketika masih merasa bahwa manusia lebih mulia daripada kekuatan yang menghancurkannya.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

Untuk tingkat yang mengejutkan para panglima perang dengan baju besi yang bersinar, para rasul dari kebajikan bela diri, cenderung tidak mati dalam pertempuran ketika saatnya tiba. Sejarah penuh dengan liburan tercela oleh orang-orang hebat dan terkenal.

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.

Sungguh mengerikan bahwa orang-orang yang begitu bodoh memiliki begitu banyak pengaruh.