"For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?"
"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."
"He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear."
"Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad."
"He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past."
"The best books... are those that tell you what you know already."