Novel's Quotations

I have actually found that posting my research here will be a much more efficient strategy as not only is it now not likely to be lost but also, this way, can be monitored with my progress. I therefore am copying from a pages document some of the previous work I have done with the text and some new additional information as well.

Quotations from novel: 

Page 185

1. "War is peace." 
2. "These superstates are permanently at war" 
3. "War...is no longer the desperate, annihilating struggle...that it was in the early...twentieth century"

Page 186

1. "Combatants who are unable to destroy one another, have no material cause." 
2. "War hysteria is continuous and universal" 
3. "In the centers of civilization war means no more than a continuous shortage of consumption goods" 

Page 187

1. "In so far as the war has a direct economic purpose, it is a war for labor power" 
2. "Above all they contain a bottomless reserve of cheap labor" 
3. "In the race to turn out more armaments, to capture more territory, to control more labor power, and so on indefinitely." 

Page 188

1. "The labor of the exploited peoples round the Equator is not really necessary to the world's economy. They add nothing to the wealth of the world, since whatever they produce is used for purposes of war, and the object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war." 
2. "The primary aim of modern warfare...is to use up the produces of the machine without raising the general standard of living"
3. "Since the end of the nineteenth century the problem of what to do with the surplus of consumption goods has been latent in industrial society." 

Page 189

1. "If the machine were used deliberately for that end, hunger overwork, dirt, illiteracy and disease could be eliminated within a few generations." 
2. "An all-round increase in wealth threatened the destruction - in some ways was the destruction - of hierarchical society" 

Page 190

1. "In the long run, i hierarchical society was only posible on a basis of poverty and ignorance."
2. "Any country which remained industrially backward was helpless in a military sense and was bound to be dominated...by its more advanced rivals." 
3. "Solution [is] to keep the masses in poverty by restricting the output of goods."
4. The problem was how to keep the wheels of industry turning without increasing the real wealth of world. Goods must be produced, but they need not be distributed." 

Page 191 

1. "The only way of achieving this way by continuous warfare."
2. "War is destruction...of the products of human labor." 
3. "Manufacture is still a convenient way of expending labor power without producing anything that can be consumed." 
4. "The war effort is always so planned as to eat up any surplus that might exist after meeting the bare needs of the population." 
5. "A general state of scarcity increases the importance of small privileges and thus magnifies the distinction between one group and another." 

Page 192

1. "War...accomplishes the necessary destruction...in a psychologically acceptable way."
2. "Even the humbles Party member...should have the mentality appropriate to a state of war." 

Page 194

1. "None of the three superstates even gains a significant lead on the others." *

Page 195

1. "Powers merel continue to produce atomic bombs and store them up against the decisive opportunity which they all believe will come sooner or late." 

Page 197

1. "Everywhere there is the same pyramidal structure, the same worship of a semi divine leader, the same economy existing by and for continuous warfare." 
2. "So long as they remain in conflict they prop one another up." 
3. "In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when was designing a gun or an airplane they had to make four." 

Page 199

1. "War...is now a purely internal affair." 
2. "The war is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects...to keep the structure of society intact." 
3. "This...is the inner meaning of the Party slogan: War is Peace." 

* Reference similar to the period of MAD during the Cold War. Perhaps this is an area that could have some more research into - if there is more significant economic benefit there.