1984

by George Orwell

WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.

They could only become dangerous if the advance of industrial technique made it necessary to educate them more highly;

Proles (proletariats): low class workers with zero education.

vaporizations are not inflicted as punishment for crimes which have actually been committed, but are merely the wiping-out of persons who might perhaps commit a crime at some time in the future.

Movie about predicted crimes. Tom Cruise.

But it means also the ability to believe that black is white, and more, to know that black is white, and to forget that one has ever believed the contrary.

the proletarian, tolerates present-day conditions partly because he has no standards of comparison.

All past oligarchies have fallen from power either because they ossified or because they grew soft. Either they became stupid and arrogant, failed to adjust themselves to changing circumstances, and were overthrown, or they became liberal and cowardly, made concessions when they should have used force, and once again were overthrown.

the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion: the more intelligent, the less sane.

For it is only by reconciling contradictions that power can be retained indefinitely. In no other way could the ancient cycle be broken. If human equality is to be forever averted—if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently—then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity.

Confusing

indefatigable

He had the feeling that O’Brien was his protector, that the pain was something that came from outside, from some other source, and that it was O’Brien who would save him from it.

Stockholm Syndrome

“What is in Room 101?” The expression on O’Brien’s face did not change. He answered drily: “You know what is in Room 101, Winston. Everyone knows what is in Room 101.”