Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.

Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.

Perhaps it is only when people are somewhere near the starvation level that they have anything to sing about.

He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.

Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power.

Apparently nothing will ever teach these people that the other 99 % of the population exist.

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.