“But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong.”

“He might be alone in holding that belief, and if alone, than a lunatic. But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him: the horror was that he might also be wrong.”

“What can you do, thought Winston, against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?”

“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”

“A lunatic is just a minority of one.”

“Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.”

“The aim of the joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.”