“It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you.”

“Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”

“You wanted a good time; "they," meaning the Party, wanted to stop you having it; you broke the rules as best you could.”

“On the village green, where you pick up sides and no feeling of local patriotism is involved, it is possible to play simply for fun and exercise: but as soon as the question of prestige arises, as soon as you feel that you and some larger unit will be disgraced if you lose, the most savage combative instincts are aroused…Nations work themselves into furies over these absurd contests, and seriously believe – at any rate for short periods – that running, jumping, and kicking a ball are tests of national virtue.”

“[...] you can get anything in this world if you genuinely don't want it.”

“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”