“In the last 3,421 years of recorded history, only 268 have seen no war”
“For every year of peace there have been four hundred years of war.”
“The past was alterable. The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.”
“Wars, and hence the memories of wars, are owned by the male species. And facism is a decidely male property, whether you were for or against it. Besides, women have no past, or aren't supposed to have one. A man can have an interesting past, a woman only indecent.”
“for years now there had been no country here but the war.”