Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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?
Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.
We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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.
Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.
It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.
War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.
Good writing is like a windowpane.
Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.
Four legs good, two legs bad.
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.