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always defeated. In a way she realized that
programmes all had to be organized; stands had to be erected, effigies built, slogans coined, songs written, rumours circulated, photographs faked.
In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.
His function is to act as a focusing point for love, fear, and reverence, emotions which are more easily felt towards an individual than towards an organization.
The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon.
Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
The more the Party is powerful, the less it will be tolerant; the weaker the opposition,
the tighter the despotism.
“It is impossible to found a civilization on fear and hatred and cruelty. It would never endure.”
For the first time he perceived that if you want to keep a secret you must also hide it from yourself.
