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All animals are created equal but some animals are more equal than others.
At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to state this or that or the other, but it is “not done”… Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the highbrow periodicals.
At any given moment, there is a sort of all pervading orthodoxy, a general tacit agreement not to discuss large and uncomfortable facts.
Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.
Every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered...History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face, forever.
In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. Things like the continuance of British rule in India, the Russian purges and deportations, the dropping of the atom bombs on Japan, can indeed be defended, but only by arguments which are too brutal for most people to face, and which do not square with the professed aims of the political parties. Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness. Defenseless villages are bombarded from the air, the inhabitants driven out into the countryside, the cattle machine-gunned, the huts set on fire with incendiary bullets: this is called pacification.
In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.
Loss of liberty is inimical to all forms of literature... The fact is that certain themes cannot be celebrated in words, and tyranny is one of them. No one ever wrote a good book in praise of the Inquisition.
The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.
The Party is not interested in the overt act. The thought is all we care about.
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
To see what is in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle.
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give the appearance of solidarity to pure wind.
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
Men sleep peacefully in their beds at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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