"Even when they became discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because being without genera…"

"He took out of the drawer a copy of a children's history textbook which he had borrowed from Mrs Parsons, and began c…"

"It was not necessary to know much. So long as they continued to work and breed, their other activities were without i…"

"It was not desirable that the proles should have strong political feelings. All that was required of them was a primi…"

"The great majority of proles did not even have telescreens in their homes. Even the civil police interfered with them…"

"Promiscuity went unpunished, divorce was permitted. For that matter, even religious worship would have been permitted…"

"The Party taught that the proles were natural inferiors who must be kept in subjection, like animals, by the applicat…"

"Rebellion meant a look in the eyes, an inflexion of the voice, at the most, an occasional whispered word. But the pro…"

"A few agents of the Thought Police moved always among them, spreading false rumours and marking down and eliminating …"

"The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave. They owned all the land, all the ho…"