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WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.
The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but that it was impossible to avoid joining in.
Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters inside your skull.
“Who controls the past,” ran the Party slogan, “controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”
Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.”
In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance.
Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
“We are the dead,” he said.
