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- The party is not concerned with perpetuating itself. Who wields power is not important, providing that the hierarchical structure always remains the same.
- A peace that is truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war.
- Records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth.
- The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible, and glittering-a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons-a nation…
- It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a…
- You believe that reality is something objective, external, existing in its own right. You also believe that the nature of reality is self-evident. When you…
- I am afraid of death. You are young, so presumably you're more afraid of it than I am. Obviously we shall put if off as…
- England will still be England, an everlasting animal, stretching into the future and the past and like all living things having the power to change…
- Whoever controls the image and information of the past determines what and how future generations will think; whoever controls the information and images of the…
- The essential point here is that all people with small, insecure incomes are in the same boat and ought to be fighting on the same…
- The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life ... A ruling…
- No one, at any rate no English writer, has written better about childhood than Dickens. In spite of all the knowledge that has accumulated since,…
- All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own…
- And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.…
- Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism. It is actually the opposite of Conservatism, since it is a devotion to something that is always changing…
- It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as well as here. And the people under…
- I felt as if I was the only person awake in a city of sleepwalkers. That's an illusion, of course. When you walk through a…
- If you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor. You can keep on with your books and your ideas.…
- Almost as swiftly as he had imagined it, she had torn her clothes off, and when she flung them aside it was with that same…
- What can the England of 1940 have in common with the England of 1840? But then, what have you in common with the child of…
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