He had understood it all, weighed it all, and it made no difference: all was justified by the ultimate purpose. - P331
The key word here is blackwhite. Like so many Newspeak words, this word has two mutually contradictory meanings. Applied to an opponent, it means the habit of impudently claiming that black is white, in contradiction of the plain facts. - P175
in Newspeak as doublethink.
The alteration of the past is necessary for two reasons,
one of which is subsidiary and, so to speak, precautionary. - P175
In Oldspeak it is called, quite frankly, "reality control." In Newspeak it is called doublethink, although doublethink comprises much else as well.
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one‘s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. - P176
This peculiar linking-together of opposites-knowledge with ignorance, cynicism with fanaticism-is one of the chief distinguishing marks of Oceanic society. - P178
But there is one question which until this moment we have almost ignored. It is: why should human equality be averted? - P178
He understood how; he did not understand why. - P179
"Sanity is not statistical," - P179
Where there is equality there can be sanity. Sooner or later it would happen: strength would change into consciousness. - P181
In this place, he knew instinctively, the lights would never be turned out. It was the place with no darkness. - P189
Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. - P197
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