I've read it before and I'll read it again....

`War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent [to rebel]`

`If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?` George Orwell 1984