They can be granted intellectual liberty because they have no intellect.

In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe

permitted if the proles had shown any sign of needing or wanting it. They were beneath suspicion. As the Party slogan put it: “Proles and animals are free.”

If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.

They can be granted intellectual liberty because they have no intellect.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking

It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as well as here. And the people under the sky were also very much the same—everywhere, all over the world, hundreds of thousands of millions of people just like this, people ignorant of one another’s existence, held apart by walls of hatred and lies, and yet

a general state of scarcity increases the importance of small privileges and thus magnifies the distinction between one group and another.

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