“it is the West’s provincialism, which leads it to perceive the rest of the continent as a failed copy of itself”

“Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself.”

“That propaganda is good which leads to success, and that is bad which fails to achieve the desired result. It is not propaganda’s task to be intelligent, its task is to lead to success.”

“Beauty brings copies of itself into being.”

“Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are inimical to Ingsoc, and of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction. Crimestop, in short, means protective stupidity.”

“They actually succeed in spelling his name right in the newspapers. That in itself is fame, on the continent.”