“And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed-if all records told the same tale-then the lie passed into history and became truth. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”ġ7. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. “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. “How could you make appeal to the future when not a trace of you, not even an anonymous word scribbled on a piece of paper, could physically survive?”ġ6. If that is granted, all else follows.”ġ5.
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“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. “Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.”ġ4. “Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.”ġ3. “The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible, and glittering-a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons-a nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting-three hundred million people all with the same face.”ġ2. “We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.”ġ1. Who controls the present controls the past.”ġ0. “Who controls the past controls the future. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.”ĩ.
“Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. “You had to live-did live, from habit that became instinct-in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every moment scrutinized.”Ĩ. “There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”ħ. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters in your skull.”Ħ. Asleep or awake, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or bed-no escape. “Always eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you.