Status in English

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

A people that elect corrupt politicians, impostors, thieves, and traitors are not victims, but accomplices.

Doublethink lies at the very heart of Ingsoc, since the essential act of the Party is to use conscious deception while retaining the firmness of purpose that goes with complete honesty.

To write or even speak English is not a science but an art.

No one can look a fool in the face so long as he keeps his thoughts to himself.

Sanity is not statistical.

All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery.

The only good human being is a dead one.

If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any result whatever, you've beaten them.

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

Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end, we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.

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