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Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.”
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.
“I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don’t want any virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.”
Its what the party preaches that's why he hates it why he hates julia
“The proles are human beings,” he said aloud. “We are not human.”
well. Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
If there was hope, it lay in the proles!
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 establish the dictatorship.
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.
Progress in our world will be progress toward more pain.
