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

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

"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…"

"Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious."

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

"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 …"

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