He who controls the past controls the future.

George Orwell in 1984
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

George Orwell in 1984
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Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad.

George Orwell in 1984
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Big Brother is watching you.

George Orwell in 1984
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Orthodoxy means not thinking - not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

George Orwell in 1984
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If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever.

George Orwell in 1984
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In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion: the more intelligent, the less sane.

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The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.

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One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

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War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.

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