Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.

Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.

A plongeur is a slave, and a wasted slave, doing stupid and largely unnecessary work. He is kept at work, ultimately, because of a vague feeling that he would be dangerous if he had leisure. And educated people, who should be on his side, acquiesce in the process, because they know nothing about him and consequently are afraid of him.

Quien controla el pasado, controla el futuro. Quien controla el presente, controla el pasado (Cap 3, primera parte - 1984)

Nothing exists except through human consciousness

There was the usual boiled-cabbage smell, common to the whole building. but it was shot through by a sharper reek of sweat, which one knew this at the first sniff, though it was hard to say how was the sweat of some person not present at the moment.

Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

... seria praticamente impossível reconstruir a história de todo aquele período, dizer quem lutava contra quem neste ou naquele dado momento, pois não havia registros escritos e os relatos orais jamais se referiam a algum quadro político diferente do vigente.

Ortodoxia înseamnă a nu gândi - a nu avea nevoie să gândești. Ortodoxia înseamnă lipsa conștiinței.