Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments.

You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.

Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined. A world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but more merciless as it refines itself. Progress in our world will be progress toward more pain.

England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality.

But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength, would have no need to conspire. They needed only to rise up and shake themselves like a horse shaking off flies. If they chose they could blow the Party to pieces tomorrow morning. Surely sooner or later it must occur to them to do it? And yet --!

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.