“Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than just ribbons?”

“One can be granted intellectual liberty when one has no intellect.”

“Listen. The more men you’ve had, the more I love you. Do you understand that?”

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

“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?”

“In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane.”

“Socialism does mean justice and liberty when the nonsense is stripped off it.”