War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.

Oceania was at war with Eurasia therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.