At most, when it is absolutely necessary that someone should be silenced, we are occasionally able to smuggle a razor blade into a prisoner's cell. O'Brien continued to move back and forth over the soft carpet. When he spoke of murder, suicide, venereal disease, amputated limbs, and altered faces, it was with a faint air of persiflage. But this is not what we shall be doing when life is worth living again. The Brotherhood cannot be wiped out because it is not an organization in the ordinary sense .
Nothing holds it together except an idea which is indestructible.
Perceptible change doesn't happen within one lifetime. One takes part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone. It could take a thousand years. We extend the area little by little generation after generation. I will send you a copy of the book .