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English essayist, novelist, & satirist (1903 - 1950)

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Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious." (Orwell, "1984")

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It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself—anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face ... was itself a punishable offense. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime ...

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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

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

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

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In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion: the more intelligent, the less sane.

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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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Orthodoxy means not thinking - not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

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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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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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