1984 Organised quotes

Language + Newspeak
“We’re destroying words, hundreds of them a day. We’re cutting the language down to the bone”
“The whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought”
“Thoughtcrime will become literally impossible because there will be no words to express it”
“Mental training undergone in childhood and grouping itself with Newspeak words, crimestop, black-white and doublethink makes him unwilling and unable to think too deeply on any subject whatsoever”

Alteration of History and power
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
“When memory failed and written records were falsified—… the claim of the Party to have improved the conditions of human life had got to be accepted because there did not exist, any standard against which it could be tested.”
“The Party member… tolerates present-day conditions because he has no standards of comparison. He must be cut off from the past… because it is necessary for him to believe that he is better off than his ancestors “
“Whatever happened you vanished and nor you or your actions were ever heard of again. You were lifted clean out of the stream of history”

We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.”
“How could you make appeal to the future when not a trace of you, not even an anonymous word scribbled on a piece of paper, could physically survive?”

Control
“Until they have become conscious they will never rebel, and until they rebel they cannot become conscious”
“The hate continued exactly as before, but the target had been changed.”
“Wealth and privilege are most easily defended when they are possessed jointly”
“A party member lives from birth to death under the eye of the thought police”
“Power is tearing human minds into pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of our own choosing”
“Men are infinity malleable”

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