God is power. But at present power is only a word so far as you are concerned. It is time for you to gather some idea of what power means. The first thing you must realize is that power is collective. The individual only has power in so far as he ceases to be an individual.
Slavery is freedom.
It must be so, because every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures. The second thing for you to realize is that power is power over human beings. You don't even control the climate or the law of gravity. And there are disease, pain, death -' O'Brien silenced him by a movement of his hand. We control matter because we control the mind.