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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 cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself -- that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word 'doublethink' involved the use of doublethink.

~ George Orwell

George Orwell 1984 2017 Alternative Facts Belief Conciousness Contradiction Corruption Democracy Doublethink Government Hypnosis Lies Logic Memory Opinion Paradox Politics Reality Trump Truth Truthfulness Unconsciousness

Privacy’ is an unusable term. We should instead talk about freedom, autonomy and self-determination of the individual. Being allowed to be yourself, to think whatever you want and to act within the law with no hindrance. That resonates with everyone.

~ Danny Mekić

Danny Mekić 1984 Autonomy Freedom Individual Law Laws Privacy Self Determination Talk Term

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.

~ George Orwell

George Orwell 1984 Future History Past Present

In this place you could not feel anything, except pain and the foreknowledge of pain.

~ George Orwell

George Orwell 1984 Pain

Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.

~ George Orwell

George Orwell 1984 Human Intellectual Mind Reality

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 not enough. Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his own? Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation. Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing. Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined. A world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but MORE merciless as it refines itself. Progress in our world will be progress towards more pain. The old civilizations claimed that they were founded on love or justice. Ours is founded upon hatred.

~ George Orwell

George Orwell 1984 Orwell Power

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. It is hallucination.' He pushed the thought under instantly. The fallacy was obvious. It presupposed that somewhere or other, outside oneself, there was a 'real' world where 'real' things happened. But how could there be such a world? What knowledge have we of anything, save through our own minds? All happenings are in the mind. Whatever happens in all minds, truly happens.

~ George Orwell

George Orwell 1984 Orwell Reality

Suddenly, by the sort of violent effort with which one wrenches one's head away from the pillow in a nightmare, Winston succeeded in transferring his hatred from the face on the screen to the dark−haired girl behind him. Vivid, beautiful hallucinations flashed through his mind. He would flog her to death with a rubber truncheon. He would tie her naked to a stake and shoot her full of arrows like Saint Sebastian. He would ravish her and cut her throat at the moment of climax. Better than before, moreover, he realized why it was that he hated her. He hated her because she was young and pretty and sexless, because he wanted to go to bed with her and would never do so, because round her sweet supple waist, which seemed to ask you to encircle it with your arm, there was only the odious scarlet sash, aggressive symbol of chastity.

~ George Orwell

George Orwell 1984 Hate Sex

Outside, even through the shut window-pane, the world looked cold.

~ George Orwell

George Orwell 1984 Dystopia Fiction Winston Smith

Nothing exists except through human consciousness

~ George Orwell

George Orwell 1984 Consciousness Dystopia Fiction George Orwell Human

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 and the priests, lawyers and the like who were parasitical upon them, and it had generally been softened by promises of an imaginary world beyond the grave.

~ George Orwell

George Orwell 1984 Future Futuristic George Orwell Heaven Hierachy Utopia Utopian

The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.

~ George Orwell

George Orwell 1984 George Orwell Language Socialism Totalitarianism

The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia's life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal.

~ George Orwell

George Orwell 1984 Beautiful Beautiful Imagery Deep Different Worlds Dystopian Fiction George Orwell

Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist?O'Brien: Of course he exists.Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me?O'Brien: You do not exist.

~ George Orwell

George Orwell 1984 Big Brother George George Orwell Government Orwell

What mattered was that the room over the junk-shop should exist. To know that it was there, inviolate, was almost the same as being in it. The room was a world, a pocket of the past where extinct animals could walk.

~ George Orwell

George Orwell 1984 Existence Matters Orwell

Privacy’ is an unusable term. We should instead talk about freedom, autonomy and self-determination of the individual. Being allowed to be yourself, to think whatever you want and to act within the law with no hindrance. That resonates with everyone.

~ Danny Mekiä‡

Danny Mekiä‡ 1984 Autonomy Freedom Individual Law Laws Privacy Self Determination Talk Term

What mattered were individual relationships, and a completely helpless gesture, an embrace, a tear, a word spoken to a dying man, could have value in itself. Proles, it suddenly occurred to him, had remained in this condition. They were not loyal to a party or a country or an idea, they were loyal to one another.

~ George Orwell

George Orwell 1984 Loyalty

Always in your stomach and in your skin there was a sort of protest, a feeling that you had been cheated of something you had a right to.

~ George Orwell

George Orwell 1984 Basic Rights Human Rights
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