In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards
A peace that was truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war.
Big Brother is the guise in which the Party chooses to exhibit itself to the world.
In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion: the more intelligent, the less sane.
Even the names of the four Ministries by which we are governed exhibit a sort of impudence in their deliberate reversal of the facts. The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation.
Sanity is not statistical