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.

There is a minority of gifted, willfuf people who are determined to live their own lives to the end, and writers belong in this class.

[...] you can get anything in this world if you genuinely don't want it.

Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he should be a credulous and ignorant fanatic whose prevailing moods are fear, hatred, adulation, and orgiastic triumph. In other words it is necessary that he should have the mentality appropriate to a state of war. It does not matter whether the war is actually happening, and, since no decisive victory is possible, it does not matter whether the war is going well or badly. All that is needed is that a state of war should exist.

The organizing principal for any culture is War.

Snobbishness, like hypocrisy, is a check upon behaviour whose value from a social point of view has been underrated.

You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.