But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.
George OrwellNot to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
George OrwellIn Oceania at the present day, Science, in the old sense, has almost ceased to exist. In Newspeak there is no word for 'Science.' The empirical method of thought, on which all the scientific achievements of the past were founded, is opposed to the most fundamental principles of Ingsoc.
George OrwellTo know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulneยญss while telling carefully constructeยญd lies, to hold simultaneoยญusly two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictยญory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy.
George Orwell