War is peace
Freedom is slavery
Ignorance is strength
“Parsons
was Winston’s fellow employee at the Ministry of Truth. He was a
fattish but active man of paralyzing stupidity, a mass of imbecile
enthusiasms--one of those completely unquestioning, devoted drudges on
whom, more even than on the thought police, the stability of the Party
depended.
Who controls the past
Controls the future
Who controls the presence
Controls the past.
Everyone under 45 is perfectly capable of
Touching his tough
“Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.
“It
was not desirable that the proles should have strong political
feelings. All that was required of them was a primitive patriotism which
could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept
longer working hours or shorter rations. And even when they became
discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere,
because, being without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty
specific grievances.
George Orwell, 1984
