Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
He who controls the past controls the future.
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - what then?
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
Records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth.
For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?
Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.
We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.
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.
It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children
A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one's will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic. And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp.
Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.
Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.
If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened - that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death.
We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now.
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