How long’s it been since you read 1984? Well, that’s too long. This book WILL change your life. Read some of the best parts here:
And yet, if there is hope, it lies — it must lie — in the proles, because only there, in those swarming disregarded masses — eighty-five percent of the population — can the force to destroy hierarchical society be generated. The society watched over by Big Brother can not be overthrown from within, or by partial revolutions: the revolution against it must come from without and must be total. Unlike those we have called the High and the Middle, the proles — if only they can somehow become fully conscious of their own strength — have no need to conspire, no need to become members of secret revolutionary brotherhoods. The proles need only to rise up and shake themselves like a horse shaking off flies. For the proles are loyal to each other. They have stayed human; they have not become hardened or dead inside; they have held on to the basic instincts and emotions which the power elites and their bureaucratic priests have to re-learn by conscious effort.