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The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to tak...more

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Liberal - a power worshipper without power.

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The whole idea of revenge and punishment is a childish day-dream. Properly speaking, there is no such thing as revenge. Revenge is an act which you wa...more

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O’Brien: How does one man assert his power over another, Winston?Winston: By making him suffer.O’Brien: Exactly. By making him suffer. Obedience is no...more

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I felt as if I was the only person awake in a city of sleepwalkers. That's an illusion, of course. When you walk through a crowd of strangers it's nex...more

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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 ob...more

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Suddenly, like a lump of submerged wreckage breaking the surface of water, the thought burst into his mind: 'It doesn't really happen. We imagine it. ...more

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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes: only in the mi...more

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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 other...more

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How does one man assert his power over another, Winston?”Winston thought. “By making him suffer,” he said.“Exactly. By making him suffer. Obedience is...more

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At present nothing is possible except to extend the area of sanity little by little. We cannot act collectively. We can only spread our knowledge outw...more

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But if there was hope, it lay in the proles. You had to cling on to that. When you put it in words it sounded reasonable: it was when you looked at th...more

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Reality only exerts its pressure through the needs of everyday life - the need to eat and drink, to get shelter and clothing, to avoid swallowing pois...more

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To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which ...more

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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.