\_ヘ(ᐖ◞)、 ID: dfd043 April 27, 2022, 12:41 p.m. No.16165450   🗄️.is 🔗kun

'“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”'

' “What can you do, thought Winston, against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself; who gives your arguments a fair hearing and simply persists in his lunacy?”'

\_ヘ(ᐖ◞)、 ID: dfd043 April 27, 2022, 12:42 p.m. No.16165456   🗄️.is 🔗kun

“War is peace.

Freedom is slavery.

Ignorance is strength.” “Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”

\_ヘ(ᐖ◞)、 ID: dfd043 April 27, 2022, 12:43 p.m. No.16165460   🗄️.is 🔗kun

“Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.”

\_ヘ(ᐖ◞)、 ID: dfd043 April 27, 2022, 12:44 p.m. No.16165468   🗄️.is 🔗kun

“You are a slow learner, Winston."

"How can I help it? How can I help but see what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four."

"Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.”

\_ヘ(ᐖ◞)、 ID: dfd043 April 27, 2022, 12:46 p.m. No.16165476   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5511

“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 minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”

\_ヘ(ᐖ◞)、 ID: dfd043 April 27, 2022, 12:47 p.m. No.16165485   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5511

 

“The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?”

― George Orwell, 1984

 

“One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.”

― George Orwell, 1984

\_ヘ(ᐖ◞)、 ID: dfd043 April 27, 2022, 12:48 p.m. No.16165489   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5511

 

“The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.”

― George Orwell, 1984

 

“We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.”

― George Orwell, 1984

 

“There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”

― George Orwell, 1984

 

“Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.”

― George Orwell, 1984

 

“Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me:

There lie they, and here lie we

Under the spreading chestnut tree.”

― George Orwell, 1984

 

“If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any result whatever, you've beaten them.”

― George Orwell, 1984

 

“Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist?

O'Brien: Of course he exists.

Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me?

O'Brien: You do not exist.”

― George Orwell, 1984

\_ヘ(ᐖ◞)、 ID: dfd043 April 27, 2022, 12:49 p.m. No.16165497   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5511

 

“ , , ”

― , 1984

 

“It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which wealth, in the sense of personal possessions and luxuries, should be evenly distributed, while power remained in the hands of a small privileged caste. 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 themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realise that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance.”

― George Orwell, 1984

 

“In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.”

― George Orwell, 1984

 

“If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.”

― George Orwell, 1984

 

“What can you do, thought Winston, against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?”

― George Orwell, 1984

 

“The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink”

― George Orwell, 1984

\_ヘ(ᐖ◞)、 ID: dfd043 April 27, 2022, 12:51 p.m. No.16165501   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5511

 

“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.”

― George Orwell, 1984

 

“So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern…Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.”

― George Orwell, 1984