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If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness," O'Brien had said to him. He knew what it meant, or thought he knew. The place where there is n...more

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We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone. But how far away that future...more

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The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.

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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.

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In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim s...more

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In the past the need for a hierarchal form of society has been the doctrine specifically of the High. It had been preached by kings and aristocrats an...more

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The war is not meant to be won. It is meant to be continuous. The essential act of modern warfare is the destruction of the produce of human labour. A...more

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Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been rename...more

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He was abusing Big Brother, he was denouncing the dictatorship of the Party, he was demanding the immediate conclusion of peace with Eurasia, he was a...more

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A totalitarian society which succeeded in perpetuating itself would probably set up a schizophrenic system of thought, in which the laws of common sen...more

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Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic sociali...more