Love is ever new because it never groweth old.
The organizing principal for any culture is War.
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 --!
If I don't have at least 4 or 5 failures a month, I feel like I'm not trying hard enough
Everyone is a threat, and anyone can be beat at any given moment. No one is invincible.
Today, nobody cares about European culture. We have a tradition, a vision, a culture of the past, we have legacy, but we don't have a present culture and we don't have a future.
Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.