The members of humanity are really and truly souls. We're all part of one great oversoul.
It is brought home to you. . . that it is only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can remain superior.
The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.
What opinions the masses hold, or do not hold, is looked upon as a matter of indifference. They can be granted intellectual liberty becasue they have no intellect.
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.
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 --!
What other form of government, indeed, can so well deserve our esteem and love?
I have been putting words like 'abnormal' and 'deviant' in quotes because those categorizations are under fire now, the boundary between normal and abnormal as questionable now as are all the other boundaries that once defined social reality.
As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book.
In order to rally people, governments need enemies. . . if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.