(Doublethink) to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed

I believe that this instinct to perpetuate useless work is, at bottom, simply a fear of the mob. The mob (the thought runs) are such low animals that they would be dangerous if they had leisure; it is safer to keep them too busy to think.

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear

He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future.