She's beautiful,' he murmured. 'She's a metre across the hips, easily,' said Julia. 'That is her style of beauty,' said Winston.
George OrwellThe masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.
George OrwellPerhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.
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 OrwellTotalitarianism, however, does not so much promise an age of faith as an age of schizophrenia. A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud. Such a society, no matter how long it persists, can never afford to become either tolerant or intellectually stable.
George Orwell