1984

by George Orwell

WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.

General thoughts of a dictatorial government

A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one’s will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic.

You were abolished, annihilated: vaporized was the usual word.

EJK hays

Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.

When there were no external records that you could refer to, even the outline of your own life lost its sharpness.

And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. “Who controls the past,” ran the Party slogan, “controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”

History revisionism at its finest

It struck him as curious that you could create dead men but not living ones.

lol Frankenstein 🧟‍♂️

Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.”

88M followers be like:

Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.

Sounds like a Liway film quote

The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.

So true hays forever slave of Capitalism

The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth.

I understand HOW: I do not understand WHY.

👨🏻‍🦯👨🏻‍🦯👨🏻‍🦯

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Agree

No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred.

So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.”

By lack of understanding they remained sane. They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left no residue behind, just as a grain of corn will pass undigested through the body of a bird.

If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.

Unconditional love it is

“The proles are human beings,” he said aloud. “We are not human.”

"We are dead." "You are dead."

Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you—that would be the real betrayal.”

In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance.

💯

War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.

Where there is equality there can be sanity. Sooner or later it would happen: strength would change into consciousness.

He felt no love for her, and he hardly even wondered what was happening to her.

Bastard

In the face of pain there are no heroes, no heroes, he thought over and over as he writhed on the floor, clutching uselessly at his disabled left arm.

I hate u Winston but that's cruel

We do not destroy the heretic because he resists us; so long as he resists us we never destroy him. We convert him, we capture his inner mind, we reshape him. We burn all evil and all illusion out of him; we bring him over to our side, not in appearance, but genuinely, heart and soul. We make him one of ourselves before we kill him.

LOL plot twist

Power is not a means; it is an end.

100%

GOD IS POWER.

To die hating them, that was freedom.

Say what now

“Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia! Not me! Julia! I don’t care what you do to her. Tear her face off, strip her to the bones. Not me! Julia! Not me!”

😠 😡 😤 😣

“Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me—”

1984 ost

He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.

Wtf.