George Orwell Quote

The fabulous statistics continued to pour out of the telescreen. As compared with last year there was more food, more clothes, more houses, more furniture, more cooking pots, more fuel, more ships, more helicopters, more books, more babies — more of everything except disease, crime, and insanity.

Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part One, Chapter V (p. 59), Buccaneer Books. Cutchogue, New York, USA. 1949