The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of independent thought. There are therefore two great problems which the Party is concerned to solve. One is how to discover, against his will, what another human being is thinking, and the other is how to kill several hundred million people in a few seconds without giving warning beforehand.

A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature

All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.

Before the war, and especially before the Boer War, it was summer all the year round.

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

Bombing is not especially inhumane. War itself is inhumane and the bombing plane, which is used to paralyse industry and transport, is a relatively civilised weapon. 'Normal' or 'legitimate' warfare is just as destructive of inanimate objects and enormously so of human lives.

If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any practical result whatsoever, you've beaten them.