Book: One thousand nine hundred eighty four. Page 4

If human equality is to be for ever impossible, if higher, as we call them, are to keep their places permanently-then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity.

The proletarians have nothing to fear. Left to themselves, they from generation to generation, from century to century will still work, breed and die, not only encroaching on the rebellion, but not even imagining that life could be different.

In more primitive ages, when a just and peaceful society can not be built, it was easy to believe.

Even today, in a period of decline, the average human is physically better off than a few centuries ago. But no advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimetre. From the point of view of the low, no historic change has ever meant much more than a change of owners.

Because of the super-States is unconquerable, each is a separate universe where you can indulge almost any mental distortion.

In practice the needs of the population are always underestimated, and the result is a chronic shortage of the necessities of life; but it is considered useful. It is deliberate policy to keep even the favoured groups on the verge of hardships, because General poverty increases the importance of small privileges and thus magnifies the distinction between one group and another.

...because the deprivation was clearly not caused by the need inevitably arose opposition.

... until then, it is easy to introduce ideological, not having a clue about the ideas themselves.

Maybe people only have something to sing when they are on the verge of starvation.

To retire, he said, for a person is very important. Everyone from time to time want to be alone. And when a man finds such a place, those who know about it, should at least out of common courtesy to keep that information to themselves.

The party told you not to believe their eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. His heart fell at the thought of what enormous power arrayed against him, the ease with which it shot down in a dispute any party ideologist - clever arguments that he not what to refute, can not understand. And he is right, though! They are wrong and he is right. Obvious, elementary, the faithful must be protected. A truism is true - and stay there! The solid world exists, its laws do not change. Stones are hard, water is wet, objects unsupported fall toward the center of the Earth.

As if some gigantic force pushing you into the skull, RAM's brain, fear of the bouncer you their beliefs, were forced not to believe his own senses. In the end the party would announce that two and two made five, and you have to believe it.

He wondered as he had many times wondered before, and not a madman whether he. The crazy one who is in the minority, in the singular. Once it was madness to think that the Earth revolves around the Sun; today - that the past is immutable. He might be alone in holding that belief, and if alone, then a lunatic. But the idea that he's a lunatic did not greatly trouble him: the horror was, if he might also be wrong.

Is considered undesirable to Strait experienced a great interest in politics. Required of them was a primitive patriotism to appeal to him when we are talking about the longer working-hours or shorter rations. And if possession of their dissatisfaction - is also used - this discontent led nowhere, because being without General ideas they could only focus it on petty specific grievances. The larger evils invariably escaped their notice.