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Communist Manifesto and 1984, "This motive really consists of staying…

- - - - “But with the development of industry, the proletariat not only increases in number; it becomes concentrated in greater masses, its strength grows, and it feels that strength more” (Marx 9)
      - “Of all the classes that stand face to face with the bourgeoisie today, the proletariat alone is a genuinely revolutionary class” (Marx 11)
      - “These laborers, who must sell themselves piecemeal, are a commodity, like every other article of commerce…” (Marx 8)
    - - “Below that come the dumb masses whom we habitually refer to as 'the proles', numbering perhaps 85 per cent of the population” (Orwell 208)
      - “In the terms of our earlier classification, the proles are the Low: for the slave population of the equatorial lands who pass constantly from conqueror to conqueror, are not a permanent or necessary part of the structure” (Orwell 208)
      - “If there is hope it lies with the proles” (Orwell 69)
- - - - "No sooner is the exploitation of the laborer by the manufacturer, so far at an end, that he receives his wages in cash, than he is set upon by the other portion of the bourgeoisie, the landlord, the shopkeeper, the pawnbroker, etc." (Marx 9)
      - “This organization of the proletarians into a class, and, consequently, into a political party, is continually being upset again by the competition between the workers themselves” (Marx 10)
      - “The bourgeoisie keeps more and more doing away with the scattered state of the population, of the means of production, and of property. It has agglomerated population, centralized the means of production, and has concentrated property in a few hands” (Marx 6)
    - - "By the standards of the early twentieth century, even a member of the Inner Party lives an austere, laborious kind of life. Nevertheless, the few luxuries that he does enjoy his large, well-appointed flat, the better texture of his clothes, the better quality of his food and drink and tobacco, his two or three servants, his private motor-car or helicopter -- set him in a different world from a member of the Outer Party, and the members of the Outer Party have a similar advantage in comparison with the submerged masses whom we call 'the proles'" (Orwell 191)
      - “From the proletarians nothing is to be feared. Left to themselves, they will continue from generation to generation and from century to century, working, breeding, and dying, not only without any impulse to rebel, but without the power of grasping that the world could be other than it is. They could only become dangerous if the advance of industrial technique made it necessary to educate them more highly; but, since military and commercial rivalry are no longer important, the level of popular education is actually declining” (Orwell 210)
      - “Who wields power is not important, provided that the hierarchical structure remains always the same” (Orwell 210)
- - - - “Below Big Brother comes the Inner Party, its numbers limited to six millions, or something less than 2 per cent of the population of Oceania” (Orwell 208)
      - "[A party member] has no freedom of choice in any direction whatever. On the other hand his actions are not regulated by law or by any clearly formulated code of behaviour" (Orwell 211)
      - “As O'Brien passed the telescreen a thought seemed to strike him. He stopped, turned aside and pressed a switch on the wall. There was a sharp snap. The voice had stopped” (Orwell 169).
    - - "The conditions of bourgeois society are too narrow to comprise the wealth created by them" (Marx 7)
      - “Modern bourgeois society, with its relations of production, of exchange and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells” (Marx 7)
      - “By bourgeoisie is the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor” (Marx 3)
- - - - “On what foundation is the present family, the bourgeois family, based? On capital, on private gain. In its completely developed form, this family exists only among the bourgeoisie” (Marx 17)
      - "The bourgeoisie has torn away from the family its sentimental veil, and has reduced the family relation into a mere money relation" (Marx 5).
    - - "The only rognized purpose of marriage was to beget children for the service of the Party" (Orwell 65)
      - “Nearly all children nowadays were horrible. What was worst of all was that by means of such organizations as the Spies they were systematically turned into ungovernable little savages, and yet this produced in them no tendency whatever to rebel against the discipline of the Party. On the contrary, they adored the Party and everything connected with it” (Orwell 24)
- - - - “We Communists have been reproached with the desire of abolishing the right of personally" (Marx 14).
      - "Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains!" (Marx 23)
    - - "War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength" (Orwell 16).
      - "In the end, the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it. Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality, was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense" (Orwell 102).