“Nothing is more disgusting than the majority: because it consists of a few powerful predecessors, of rogues who adapt themselves, of weak who assimilate themselves, and the masses who imitate without knowing at all what they want.”

“Few suffer more than those who refuse to forgive themselves.”

“That the Party did not seek power for its own ends, but only for the good of the majority. That it sought power because men in the mass were frail cowardly creatures who could not endure liberty or face the truth, and must be ruled over and systematically deceived by others who were stronger than themselves. That the choice for mankind lay between freedom and happiness, and that, for the great bulk of mankind, happiness was better.”

“They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves with contentment.”

“The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.”

“The world is what it is: those who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.”