“Such songs are not sung anymore in public, especially the ones that use words like free. They are considered too dangerous."

“‘Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.’”

“I hold the glossy counters with their smooth edges, finger the letters. [...] This is freedom, an eyeblink of it." (playing game of scrabble)

A thing that astonished him about her was the coarseness of her language.

“It is the first syllable in charity. It is the French word for flesh. These are the kind of litanies I use, to compose myself." (Talking about the word chair)

The preterite of STEAL was STEALED, the preterite of THINK was THINKED, and so on throughout the language,

“FAITH. It’s the only thing they’ve given me to read” - p.63

We're getting the language into its final shape--the shape it's going to have when nobody speaks anything else.

‘It is an incendiary device: who knows what we’d make of it, if we ever got our hands on it? We can be read to from it, by him, but we cannot read.’ p94

'It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.