Vivek-quote

//1) People simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done was wiped out, and your one-time existence was denied and then forgotten. You were abolished, annihilated: vaporized was the usual word. (Power)//

//2) And so it was with every class of recorded fact, great or small. Everything faded away into a shadow-world in which, finally, even the date of the year had become uncertain. (Manipulation)//

//3) Comrade Ogilvy, who had never existed in the present, now existed in the past, and when once the act of forgery was forgotten, he would exist just as authentically, and upon the same evidence, as Charlemagne or Julius Caesar. (Manipulation, Memory)//

//4) Everything faded into mist. The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth. (Manipulation)//

//5) Actually he was not used to writing by hand. Apart from very short notes, it was usual to dictate everything into the speakwrite which was of course impossible for his present purpose. (Technology, Memory)//

//6) Why should one feel it to be intolerable unless one had some kind of ancestral memory that things had once been different? (Memory)//

//7) And so it was with every class of recorded fact, great or small. Everything faded away into a shadow-world in which, finally, even the date of the year had become uncertain. (Memory)//

//8) And it was no longer the same cramped, awkward handwriting as before. His pen had slid voluptuously over the smooth paper, printing in large neat capitals

DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER (Rebellion)//

//9) And what he wanted, more even than to be loved, was to break down that wall of virtue, even if it were only once in his whole life. The sexual act, successfully performed, was rebellion. Desire was thoughtcrime. (Rebellion)//

//10) But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength, would have no need to conspire. (Rebellion)//

//11) "I've been at school too, dear. Sex talks once a month for the over-sixteens. And in the Youth Movement. They rub it into you for years. I dare say it works in a lot of cases. But of course you can never tell; people are such hypocrites." (Power, Repression)//

//12) "Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia! Not me! Julia! I don't care what you do to her. Tear her face off, strip her to the bones. Not me! Julia! Not me!" (Betrayal)//

//13) Winston kept his back turned to the telescreen. It was safer, though, as he well knew, even a back can be revealing. (Power, Fear)//

//14) From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party:

WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH (Power, Repression, Totalitarianism)//

//15) "We are not interested in those stupid crimes that you have committed. The Party is not interested in the overt act: the thought is all we care about. We do not merely destroy our enemies, we change them. Do you understand what I mean by that?" (Power, Repression, Indoctrination)//

//16) The primary aim of modern warfare (in accordance with theprinciples of doublethink, this aim is simultaneously recognized and not recognized by the directing brains of the Inner Party) is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living. (Power, Repression)//

// 17) In 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. And even technological progress only happens when its products can in some // // way be used for the diminution of human liberty. (Power, Control, Repression) // //18) The Party said that Oceania had never been in alliance with Eurasia. He, Winston Smith, knew that Oceania had been in alliance with Eurasia as short a time as four years ago. But where did that knowledge exist? Only in his own consciousness, which in any case must soon be annihilated. (Power, Manipulation, Memory and the Past)//

//19) In the far distance a helicopter skimmed down between the roofs, hovered for an instant like a bluebottle, and darted away again with a curving flight. It was the police patrol, snooping into people's windows. (Repression, Technology)

20)// //"Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right." (Totalitarianism, Irony, Control)//