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Title: 1984 Authors: George Orwell Category:#supplementals Number of Highlights: 20 Date: 2022-07-17 Last Highlighted: **
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Tragedy, he perceived, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there were still privacy, love, and friendship, and when the members of a family stood by one another without needing to know the reason.
The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but that it was impossible to avoid joining in.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
“Who controls the past,” ran the Party slogan, “controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”
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Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.”
WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
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The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.
Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
A peace that was truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war. This—although the vast majority of Party members understand it only in a shallower sense—is the inner meaning of the Party slogan: WAR IS PEACE.
It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy, but always against one’s own body.
If one is to rule, and to continue ruling, one must be able to dislocate the sense of reality. For the secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one’s own infallibility with the power to learn from past mistakes.
Partly it was a sort of hymn to the wisdom and majesty of Big Brother, but still more it was an act of self-hypnosis, a deliberate drowning of consciousness by means of rhythmic noise.