A hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance, this new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia but to keep the very structure of society intact.

The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.

News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all else is advertising.

We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.

I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.

You would not make the act of submission which is the price of sanity.

War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.