Nineteen Eighty-Four

by George Orwell

For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realize that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away.

In a Party member, on the other hand, not even the smallest deviation of opinion on the most unimportant subject can be tolerated.