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

In the face of pain there are no heroes.

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.

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

The major problem of our time is the decay in the belief in personal immortality, and it cannot be dealt with while the average human being is either drudging like an ox or shivering in fear of the secret police... How right [the working classes] are to realize that the belly comes before the soul, not in the scale of values but in point of time!

The object of power is power.

We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.