1 In so far as the war has a direct economic purpose, it is a war for labour power.
2 The slightly more favoured workers whom we call 'the proles' are only intermittently conscious of the war.'
3 Those whose attitude towards the war is most nearly rational are the subject peoples of the disputed territories.
4 The proles, normally apathetic about the war, were being lashed into one of their periodical frenzies of patriotism.
5 To these people the war is simply a continuous calamity which sweeps to and fro over their bodies like a tidal wave.
6 It was now impossible for any human being to prove by documentary evidence that the war with Eurasia had ever happened.
7 I am authorized to say that the action we are now reporting may well bring the war within measurable distance of its end.
8 Even the geographical knowledge that one needed in transferring the war from one part of the world to another was considerable.
9 In principle the war effort is always so planned as to eat up any surplus that might exist after meeting the bare needs of the population.
10 Their lives are dedicated to world conquest, but they also know that it is necessary that the war should continue everlastingly and without victory.
11 The invention of aeroplanes dated from long before her birth, but the switchover in the war had happened only four years ago, well after she was grown up.
12 Once when he happened in some connexion to mention the war against Eurasia, she startled him by saying casually that in her opinion the war was not happening.
13 It does not matter whether the war is actually happening, and, since no decisive victory is possible, it does not matter whether the war is going well or badly.
14 When it is necessary they can be prodded into frenzies of fear and hatred, but when left to themselves they are capable of forgetting for long periods that the war is happening.
15 The war is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory, but to keep the structure of society intact.
16 Meanwhile no Inner Party member wavers for an instant in his mystical belief that the war is real, and that it is bound to end victoriously, with Oceania the undisputed master of the entire world.
17 Although no directive was ever issued, it was known that the chiefs of the Department intended that within one week no reference to the war with Eurasia, or the alliance with Eastasia, should remain in existence anywhere.
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