If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
True freedom is the right to say something that others don't want to hear.
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.
We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right.
That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.
Apparently nothing will ever teach these people that the other 99 % of the population exist.
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned.
The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side, without ever bothering to examine the evidence.
Whoever controls the image and information of the past determines what and how future generations will think; whoever controls the information and images of the present determines how those same people will view the past." "He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past.
He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
It's not so much staying alive, it's staying human that's important. What counts is that we don't betray each other.
Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined. A world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but more merciless as it refines itself. Progress in our world will be progress toward more pain.
Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
All that was required of them (i.e. the brain-washed masses) was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working hours or shorter rations. And even when they became discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because, being without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty specific grievances. The larger evils invariably escaped their notice.
At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is 'not done' to say it... Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the high-brow periodicals.
When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don't have to ask whose side I'm on.
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.
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