"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...
To die hating them, that was freedom
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"Big Brother is watching you.
"No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
"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 est...
"If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it. But if public opinion is sluggis...
"Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
"All the beliefs, habits, tastes, emotions, mental attitudes that characterize our time are really designed to sustain the mystique of the party and pr...
"But after reading it he knew better than before that he was not mad. Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was trut...
"With its grace and carelessness, it seemed to annihilate a whole culture, a whole system of thought, as though [all] could be swept into a nothingness...
"The only evidence to the contrary was the mute protest in your own bones, the instinctive feeling that the conditions you lived in were intolerable an...
"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
"If there was hope, it must lie in the proles, because only there, in those swarming disregarded masses, eighty-five percent of the population of Ocean...
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"To die hating them, that was freedom.
"From the point of view of the Low, no historic change has ever meant much more than a change in the name of their masters.