1984

The only evidence is inside my own mind, and I don’t know with any certainty that any other human being shares my memories.

Such a thing as an independent political movement was outside her imagination: and in any case the Party was invincible. It would always exist, and it would always be the same.

In this game that we’re playing, we can’t win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that’s all.

The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible, andglittering -- a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons -- a nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting --three hundred
million people all with the same face.

Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they haverebelled they cannot become conscious.

Why should one feel it to be intolerable unless one had some kind of ancestral memory that things had once been different?

had been tacked to the wall. It depicted simply an enormous face, more than a metre wide: the face of a man of about forty-five,

The old civilizations claimed that they were founded on love or justice. Ours is founded upon hatred.

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.

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