extra information:taken from: orwell's novel 1984 [book]original text:'[...] if there is hope, wrote winston, it lies in the proles.if there was hope, it must lie in the proles, because only there, in those swarming disregardered masses, 85 percent of the population of Oceania, could the force to destroy the Party ever be generated. [...]'about the quoted person:George Orwell was the pen name of the English author Eric Arthur Blair who is well-known for his novels 1984 and animal farm.see literature for a comprehensive biography.the quote is taken from the part in which winston smith rebels against the totalitarian party by writing in his diary and having personal thoughts. he thinks about the possibility of overthrowing the party. this can only be possible if the proles, the uncontrolled underclass mass in oceania, start to think about a revolution, as they are the only part of the population that is not mind-controlled.