Newspeak Quotes by George Orwell

13 Newspeak quotes by George Orwell

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Orwell’s warning about language as a weapon is distilled into 13 sharp observations on Newspeak, showing how words can both free and imprison.

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“The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect. Newspeak”

George Orwell

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“Newspeak is the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year?”

George Orwell

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“In Oceania at the present day, Science, in the old sense, has almost ceased to exist. In Newspeak there is no word…

George Orwell

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“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In”

George Orwell

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“Newspeak was designed not to extend but to diminish the range of thought, and this purpose was indirectly assisted by cutting the…

George Orwell

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It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought...should be literally unthinkable,…

George Orwell

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“You don’t grasp the beauty of the destruction of words. Do you know that Newspeak is the only language in the world…

George Orwell

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Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make…

George Orwell

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Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? Has it ever occurred to you,…

George Orwell

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“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make…

George Orwell

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“The grammar of Newspeak had two outstanding peculiarities. The first of these was an almost complete interchangeability between different parts of speech.…

George Orwell

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“After all, what justification is there for a word which is simply the opposite of some other word? A word contains its…

George Orwell

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“Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make…

George Orwell

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