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 delude yourself into thinking that you see something, you assume that everyone else sees the same thing as you. But I tell you, Winston, that reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes: only in the mind of the Paty, which is collective and immortal.
George OrwellEach generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
George OrwellOceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.
George OrwellLack of money means discomfort, means squalid worries, means shortage of tobacco, means ever-present consciousness of failure-above all, it means loneliness.
George OrwellBut it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.
George Orwell