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WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.
The Ministry of Truth, which concerned itself with news, entertainment, education, and the fine arts. The Ministry of Peace, which concerned itself with war. The Ministry of Love, which maintained law and order. And the Ministry of Plenty, which was responsible for economic affairs. Their names, in Newspeak: Minitrue, Minipax, Miniluv, and Miniplenty.
Either the future would resemble the present, in which case it would not listen to him, or it would be different from it, and his predicament would be meaningless.
A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledgehammer, 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. And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp.
Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.
Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.