The name of every organization, or body of people, or doctrine, or country, or institution, or public building, was invariably cut down into the familiar shape; that is, a single easily pronounced word with the smallest number of syllables. (중략) It was perceived that in thus abbreviating a name one narrowed and subtly altered its meaning, by cutting out most of the associations that would otherwise cling to it. (중략) Comintern is a word that can be uttered almost without taking thought, whereas Communist International is a phrase over which one is obliged to linger at least monentarily. In the same way, the association called up by a word Minitrue are fewer and more controllabe than those called up by Ministry of Truth. - P307
The Ministry of Truth – Minitrue, in Nespeak – was startlingly differebt from any other object in sight. It was an enormous pyramidal structure of glittering white concrete, soaring up, terrace after terrace, three hundred meters into the air. From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the tree slogans of the Party: WAR IS PEACE. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.
- P4
He disliked nearly all women, and especially the young and pretty ones. It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy.
- P10
And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed – if all records told the same tale – then the lie passed into history and became truth. "Who controls the past," ran the Party slogan, "controls the future: who controls the present controls the past." And yet the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered. Whatever was true now was the true from everlasting to everlasting. It was quite simple. All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory. "Reality control," the called it; In Newspeak, "doublethink."
- P34
And then a voice from the telescreen was singing:
"Under the spreading cestnut tree / I sold you and you sold me: / There lied they, and here lie we / Under the spreading chestnut tree."
The three men never stirred. But when Winston glanced at Rutherford’s ruinous face, he saw that his eyes were full of tears. And for the first time he noticed, with a kind of inward shudder, and yet not knowing at what he shuddered, that both Aaronson and Rutherford had broken noses.
- P77
Talking to her, he realized how easy it was to present an appearance of orthodoxy while having no grasp whatever of what orthodoxy meant. In a way, the world-view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficently interested in public events to notice what was happening. By lack of understanding they remained sane. They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them to harm, because it lift no residue behind, just as a grain of corn will pass undigested through the body of a bird.
- P156
The book fascinated him, or more exactly it reassured him. In a sense it told him nothing that was new, but that was part of the attraction. It said what he would have said, if it had been possible for him to set his scattered thoughts in order. It was the product of a mind similar to his own, but enormously more powerful, more systematic, less fear-ridden. The best books, he perceived, are those that tell you what you know already.
- P200
The new aristocracy was made up for the most part of bureaucrats, scientists, technicians, trade-union organizers, publicity experts, sociologists, teachers, journalists, and professional politicians. These people, whose origins lay in the salaried middle class and the upper grades of the working class, had been shaped and brought together by the barren world of monopoly industry and centralized government. As compared with their opposite number in past ages, they were less avaricious, less tempted by luxury, hungrier for pure power, and, above all, more conscious of what they were doing and more intent on crushing opposition.
- P205
Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
- P217
He heard Julia snap her teeth together. "I suppose we may as well say good-by," she said.
"you may as well say good-by," said the voice. Ant then another quite different voice, a thin, cultivated voice which Winston had the impression of having heard before, struck in: "And by the way, while we are on the subject, Here comes a candle to light you to bed, here comes a chopper to chop off your head!"
- P222
"Shall I tell you why we have brought you here? To cure you! To make you sane! Will you understand, Winston, that no one whom we bring to this place ever leaves our hands uncured? 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."
- P253
"We are the priests of power," he said. "God is power. But at present power is only a word so far as you are concerned. It is time for you to gather some idea of what power means. The first thing you must realize is that power is collective. The individual only has power in so far as he ceases to be a individual. (중략) Alone - free - the human being is always defeated. It must be so, because every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failure. But if he can make complete, utter submission, if he can escape from his identity, if he can merge himself in the Party so that he is the Party, then he is all-powerful and immortal. The second thing for you to realize is that power is power over human beings. Over the body - but, above all, over the mind.
- P264
"How does one man assert his power over another, Winston?"
Winston thought. "By making him suffer," he said.
"Exactly. By making him suffer. Obedience is not enough. Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his own? Power is in inflicting pain and humilation. (중략) Progress in our world will be progress toward more pain. The old civilizations claimed that they were fonded on love and justice. Ours is founded upon hatred. In our world there will be no emotions except fear, rage, triumph, and self-abasement. Everything else we shall destroy - everything. Already we are breaking down the habits of thought which have survived from before the Revolution. We have cut the links between child and parent, and between man and man, and between man and woman. No one dares trust a wife or a child or a friend any longer.
- P266
"Tell me," he said, "how soon will they shoot me?"
"It might be a long time," said O‘Brien. "You are a difficult case. But don‘t give up hope. Everything is cured sooner or later. In the end we shall shoot you."
- P274
"Sometimes," she said, "the threaten you with something - something you can‘t stand up to, can‘t even think about. And the you say, ‘Don‘t do it to me, do it to somebody else, do it to so-and-so.‘ (중략) You thik there‘s no other way of saving yourself, and you‘re quite ready to save yourself that way. You want it to happen to the other person. You don‘t give a damn what they suffer. All you care about is yourself."
"All you care about is yourself," he echoed.
"And after that, you don‘t feel the same toward the other person any longer."
"No," he said, "you don‘t feel the same."
There did not seem to be anything more to say.
- P292
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