Character: Winston Smith. Page 1

The heresy of heresies was common sense. And terrible is not that you will kill for the opposite opinion, and the fact that they may be right. In fact, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and external world exist only in the mind, the mind itself is controllable - what then?

Now nearly all children nowadays were horrible. And worst of all, with the help of such organizations as the scouts, they methodically turn into a wild little savage, and they do not have a desire to rebel against party discipline. On the contrary, they adored the party and everything connected with it. The songs, the processions, the banners, the Hiking, the drilling with dummy rifles, the shouting of slogans, the worship of big Brother - all is a game to them. They bring on the strangers, the enemies of the system, foreigners, traitors, saboteurs, thought-criminals of. Has become commonplace that thirty people are afraid of their children.

Recognition is not a betrayal. What you said or didn't say doesn't matter, just a feeling. If I was forced to stop loving you - that would be the real betrayal.

Winston, how does one man assert his power over others?
After all, he thought.
- Forcing them to suffer, he said.
- Absolutely. Forcing him to suffer. Obedience is not enough. If the person is not suffering, how can you be sure that he obeying your will and not his own? The power is to hurt and humiliate. To tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in this form in which you want.

- Does the past exist concretely, in space? Is there somewhere such a place, a world of solid objects, where the past is still happening?
- No.
- Then, where it exists, if it exists?
- In the documents. It was written.
- In the documents. And...?
- In the mind. In human memories.
- In memory. Very good. We, the party, control all the documents and manage the memories. Then we control the past, right?

Common sense - the concept is not statistical.

As long as human beings stay human, death and life are one and the same.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two and two make four.
If that is granted, all else follows

The future or the past - a time when thought is free, people differ from one another and do not live alone, time where the truth is the truth and nothing turns into fiction.
From the same era, the era of lonely, from the age of big Brother, from the age of doublethink - greetings!