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?

“You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with…”

“The young officers who had come back [from WW1], hardened by their terrible exp…”

“The moral is, never be sorry for a waiter. Sometimes when you sit in a restaura…”

“A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy, and its ruling caste, in order t…”