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Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.” (Orwell, “1984”)
—George Orwell, 1984
It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself—anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face … was itself a punishable offense. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime …
—George Orwell, 1984
Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
—George Orwell, 1984
Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad.
—George Orwell, 1984
If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever.
—George Orwell, 1984
In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion: the more intelligent, the less sane.
—George Orwell, 1984
Orthodoxy means not thinking – not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.
—George Orwell, 1984
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.
—George Orwell, 1984
The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.
—George Orwell, 1984
War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.
—George Orwell, 1984