Nineteen Eighty-Four

"Power is tearing human minds apart and putting them back together in new shapes of your own choosing."

"It's not so much staying alive.  It's staying human that's important."

"Who controls the past, controls the future.  Who controls the present, controls the past."

"War is not meant to be won; it is meant to be continuous.  The essential fact of modern warfare is the destruction of the produce of human labor.  A hierarchy of society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance.  In principle, the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation.  The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not victory......but to keep the very structure of society intact."