"BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU." "WAR IS PEACE. SLAVERY IS FREEDOM. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH." Freedom is the freedom to know that two plus two make four. Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past. In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two plus two might make five, but when one was designing a fun or an airplane they had to make four. show all 25 items) Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime is death. The best books... are those that tell you what you know already. We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness. If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself. Power is in inflicting pain and humiliations. Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.... We are creating a world of fear and treachery and torment ... a world which will grow not less but MORE merciless.... In our world there will be no emotions except fear, rage, triumph, and self-abasement.... There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always—do not forget this, Winston—always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever. She had become a physical necessity, something that he not only wanted but felt that he had a right to. The whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought ... every year fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller. ... What was required was short clipped words of unmistakable meaning which ... roused the minimum of echoes in the speaker's mind. ... The smaller the area of choice, the smaller the temptation to take thought. Winston fitted a nib into the penholder and sucked it to get the grease off.

The pen was an archaic instrument, seldom used even for signatures, and he had procured one, furtively and with some difficulty, simply because of a feeling that the beautiful creamy paper deserved to be written on with a real nib instead of being scratched with an ink-pencil. Actually he was not used to writing by hand. Apart from very short notes, it was usual to dictate everything into the speak-write, which was of course impossible for his present purpose. Such things he saw could not happen today. Today there were fear, hatred, and pain, but no dignity of emotion or deep and complex sorrows. And if all the others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records contained the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. Until they become conscious, they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. Winston, in addition to his regular work, spent long periods every day in going through back files of the Times and altering and embellishing news items which were to be quoted in speeches. At present nothing is possible except to extend the area of sanity little by little. In so far as he had time to remember it, he was not troubled by the fact that every word he murmured into the speakwrite, every stroke of his ink pencil, was a deliberate lie. War prisoners apart, the average citizen of Oceania never sets eyes on a citizen of either Eurasia or Eastasia, and he is forbidden the knowledge of foreign languages. If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has been told about them are lies. Applied to an opponent, it means the habit of impudently claiming that black is white, in contradiction of the plain facts. Applied to a Party member, it means a loyal willingness to say that black is white when Party discipline demands this. But it means also the ability to believe that black is white, and more, to know that black is white, and to forget that one has ever believed the contrary. "How does one man assert power over another, Winston?"



Winston thought. "By making him suffer," he said. Countless other words such as honor, justice, morality, internationalism, democracy, science, and religion had simply ceased to exist. ...a Party member called upon to make a political or ethical judgment should be able to spray forth the correct opinions as automatically as a machine gun spraying forth bullets.