1 The Party is not a class in the old sense of the word.
2 And so it was with every class of recorded fact, great or small.
3 In earlier ages, class distinctions had been not only inevitable but desirable.
4 While wars could be won or lost, no ruling class could be completely irresponsible.
5 Ultimately the determining factor is the mental attitude of the ruling class itself.
6 A ruling class which could guard against all of them would remain in power permanently.
7 So far as it could be achieved, a Newspeak word of this class was simply a staccato sound expressing ONE clearly understood concept.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George OrwellContextHighlight In PART 3: Chapter 7-APPENDIX 8 War was a sure safeguard of sanity, and so far as the ruling classes were concerned it was probably the most important of all safeguards.
9 Mere debauchery did not matter very much, so long as it was furtive and joyless and only involved the women of a submerged and despised class.
10 It had always been assumed that if the capitalist class were expropriated, Socialism must follow: and unquestionably the capitalists had been expropriated.
11 The older kind of Socialist, who had been trained to fight against something called 'class privilege' assumed that what is not hereditary cannot be permanent.
12 The only classes of words that were still allowed to inflect irregularly were the pronouns, the relatives, the demonstrative adjectives, and the auxiliary verbs.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George OrwellContextHighlight In PART 3: Chapter 7-APPENDIX 13 It preaches a contempt for the working class unexampled for centuries past, and it dresses its members in a uniform which was at one time peculiar to manual workers and was adopted for that reason.
14 These people, whose origins lay in the salaried middle class and the upper grades of the working class, had been shaped and brought together by the barren world of monopoly industry and centralized government.
15 It will be simpler to discuss each class separately, but the grammatical peculiarities of the language can be dealt with in the section devoted to the A vocabulary, since the same rules held good for all three categories.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George OrwellContextHighlight In PART 3: Chapter 7-APPENDIX 16 It was still true that men were not equal in their native talents and that functions had to be specialized in ways that favoured some individuals against others; but there was no longer any real need for class distinctions or for large differences of wealth.