1 He could not fight against the Party any longer.
2 You understand,' he said, 'that you will be fighting in the dark.
3 Secondly, there is no longer, in a material sense, anything to fight about.
4 The third, Eastasia, only emerged as a distinct unit after another decade of confused fighting.
5 We don't all have the privilege of fighting in the front line, but at least we can all keep fit.
6 The man was led out, walking unsteadily, with head sunken, nursing his crushed hand, all the fight had gone out of him.
7 But between the general aims that we are fighting for and the immediate tasks of the moment, you will never know anything.
8 It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy, but always against one's own body.
9 For several months during his childhood there had been confused street fighting in London itself, some of which he remembered vividly.
10 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.
11 It is a warfare of limited aims between combatants who are unable to destroy one another, have no material cause for fighting and are not divided by any genuine ideological difference.
12 The fighting, when there is any, takes place on the vague frontiers whose whereabouts the average man can only guess at, or round the Floating Fortresses which guard strategic spots on the sea lanes.
13 In the past, the ruling groups of all countries, although they might recognize their common interest and therefore limit the destructiveness of war, did fight against one another, and the victor always plundered the vanquished.
14 Great areas of it, even for a Party member, were neutral and non-political, a matter of slogging through dreary jobs, fighting for a place on the Tube, darning a worn-out sock, cadging a saccharine tablet, saving a cigarette end.
15 But to trace out the history of the whole period, to say who was fighting whom at any given moment, would have been utterly impossible, since no written record, and no spoken word, ever made mention of any other alignment than the existing one.
16 On the battlefield, in the torture chamber, on a sinking ship, the issues that you are fighting for are always forgotten, because the body swells up until it fills the universe, and even when you are not paralysed by fright or screaming with pain, life is a moment-to-moment struggle against hunger or cold or sleeplessness, against a sour stomach or an aching tooth.
17 The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible, and glittering--a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons--a nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting--three hundred million people all with the same face.
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