We're fumbling in the dark, but at least we're in motion.
Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.
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 --!
I only need a mirror to see a sinner.
Music is, I think, the best way to. . . not forget, but to just escape for a moment.
How could sexuality be anything but God? It's the creation of life. Life is experiencing itself in endless forms.
You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.