Newspeak isn’t just some ordinary system of lies; it’s a powerful weapon. All those Molotovs understood they wouldn’t succeed in forbidding words. So they didn’t forbid them; they did something much more clever—they stole or deformed the real meaning of words. They left the old words, but gave them their own meaning. A devilish invention: you can talk any way you want, but your words won’t mean what they ought to anymore. Clever Molotovs!
