“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.”

“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?”

“A lunatic is just a minority of one.”

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

“No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?”

“He was alone with seven thousand books...mostly aged and unsaleable.”