The whole idea of revenge and punishment is a childish day-dream. Properly speaking, there is no such thing as revenge. Revenge is an act which you want to commit when you are powerless and because you are powerless: as soon as the sense of impotence is removed, the desire evaporates also.

We have sunk so low it has become the obligation of every decent, thinking individual to re-state the obvious!

The object of power is power.

they had come to a time when no one dared speak his mind, when fierce, growling dogs roamed everywhere, and when you had to watch your comrades torn to pieces after confessing to shocking crimes.

Now he had recognized himself as a dead man it became important to stay alive as long as possible.

She's beautiful,' he murmured. 'She's a metre across the hips, easily,' said Julia. 'That is her style of beauty,' said Winston.

The upper class desire to remain so, the middle class wish to overthrow the upper class, and the lower class want a classless system.