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In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think.
Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
Everything faded into mist. The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth.
He might be ALONE in holding that belief, and if alone, then a lunatic.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy, but always against one's own body.
The first step had been a secret, involuntary thought, the second had been the opening of the diary. He had moved from thoughts to words, and now from words to actions.
This--although the vast majority of Party members understand it only in a shallower sense--is the inner meaning of the Party slogan: WAR IS PEACE.
The best books, he perceived, are those that tell you what you know already.
'Sanity is not statistical,'
Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his own?
