Caroline ’s Reviews > 1984 > Status Update

"The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of independent thought. There are therefore two great problems which the Party is concerned to solve. One is how to discover, against his will, what another human being is thinking, and the other is how to kill several hundred million people in a few seconds without giving warning beforehand."

"Her voice floated upward with the sweet summer air, very tuneful, charged with a sort of happy melancholy. One had the feeling that she would have been perfectly content if the June evening had been endless[...]to remain there for a thousand years[...]singing rubbish.[...]Perhaps it was only when people were somewhere near the starvation level that they had anything to sing about."

Middle of chapter two.