The Last Man in Europe Quotes

“Orwell could see that Burnham, was nothing but a naked power worshipper, and one of those annoying writers, typical of Marxists and former Marxists, who kept half a dozen directly contradictory ideas active at all times, sustaining the complex trick by means of subtle adjustments of his earlier definitions and prophesies. Dialectics, they called it; but Orwell had coined his own term for it: Doublethink. We could all be geniuses, he thought, if we could invent our own logic and adjust our predictions after the fact.”
― Dennis Glover, The Last Man in Europe

“According to Soviet law, crime and the intent to commit crime are virtually the same thing … In the coming trial the prosecution expects to show that the accused premeditated certain crimes although they never committed them – and therefore are little less guilty than if the crimes had actually been committed.’ Thought itself has become a crime.”
― Dennis Glover, The Last Man in Europe