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"If he were allowed contact with foreigners, he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has been told about them is lies".
"But in practice, such a society could not long remain stable. For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for…
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And even technological progress only happens when its products can in some way be used for diminution of human liberty. In all the useful arts the world’s either standing still or going backwards.
He felt as though he were wandering the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster. He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable. What certainty had he that a single human now…
"He remembered how once he had been walking down a crowded street when a tremendous shout of hundreds of voices women's voices--had burst from a side-street a little way ahead. It was a great formidable cry of anger and despair, a deep,…
“Big Brother is Watching You.”
Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by…
“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.”
“In the face of pain there are no heroes.”
“Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.”
“Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.”
“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
“We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.”
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”
“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”
“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
"Big Brother is Watching You."
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"After all, what justification is there for a word which is simply the opposite of some other words? - Take 'good', for instance. If you have a word like 'good', what need is there for a word like 'bad'? 'Ungood' will do just as well."
"it was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."
Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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“He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.”
JennComishen
A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledgehammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one's will into a…