Gordon eyed them with inert hatred. At this moment he hated all books, and novels most of all. Horrible to think of all that soggy, half-baked trash massed together in one place.
George OrwellReal power is achieved when the ruling class controls the material essentials of life, granting and withholding them from the masses as if they were privileges.
George OrwellIt was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought...should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent on words.
George OrwellThe war is waged against its own subjects and its object is not the victory...but to keep the very structure of society intact.
George OrwellBut the problems of perpetuating a hierarchical society go deeper than this. There are only four ways in which a ruling group can fall from power. Either it is conquered from without, or it governs so inefficiently that the masses are stirred to revolt, or it allows a strong and discontented Middle group to come into being, or it loses its own self-confidence and willingness to govern.
George Orwell