بدا العجوز بنيامين، الحمار، وأنه لم يتغير منذ الثورة. كان يؤدي عمله بنفس الأسلوب البطيء العنيد الذي كان معتادا عليه منذ زمن جونز، لا يتهرب أبدا، ولا يتطوع أبدا لعمل إضافي. لم يكن يعبر عن أي رأى حول الثورة ونتائجها. حينما كان سُأل ما إن كان الآن أكثر سعادة بعد أن رحل جونز، كان يجيب " تعيش الحمير طويلا. لم ير أحدكم حمارا ميتا". وكان على الآخرين تقبل هذه الإجابة المقتضبة.
George OrwellWealth and privilege are most easily defended when they are possessed jointly. The so-called ‘abolition of private property’ which took place in the middle years of the century meant, in effect, the concentration of property in far fewer hands than before: but with this difference, that the new owners were a group instead of a mass of individuals.
George OrwellTag: 1984
If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened—that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death?...But where did that knowledge exist? Only in his consciousness, which in any case must soon be annihilated...'Who controls the past,' ran the Party slogan,'controls the future:who controls the present controls the past.'...All that was needed was a series of victories over your own memory.
George OrwellTag: politics past introspection 1984 george-orwell past-and-future politics-freedom-liberty good-vs-evil dystopian-fiction
I dreamt-' he began, and stopped short. It was too complex to be put into words. There was the dream itself, and there was a memory connected with it that had swum into his mind in the few seconds after waking.
George OrwellAs soon as he touched her she seemed to wince and stiffen. To embrace her was like embracing a jointed wooden image. And what was strange was that even when she was clasping him against her he had the feeling that she was simultaneously pushing him away with all her strength.
George OrwellTag: 1984 jointed-wooden-image to-embrace-her
Dodici voci si alzarono furiose, e tutte erano simili. Non c'era da chiedersi ora che cosa fosse successo al viso dei maiali. Le creature di fuori guardavano dal maiale all'uomo, dall'uomo al maiale e ancora dal maiale all'uomo, ma già era loro impossibile distinguere fra i due.
George OrwellAfter knowing him I saw the force of the proverb ‘Trust a snake before a Jew and a Jew before a Greek, but don’t trust an Armenian.
George OrwellCrimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are inimical to Ingsoc, and of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction. Crimestop, in short, means protective stupidity.
George Orwell...and to know that things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse–hunger, hardship, and disappointment being, so he said, the unalterable law of life.
George OrwellTag: animal-farm george-orwell
The command of the old despotisms was "Thou shalt not". The command of the totalitarians was "Thou shalt". Our command is "Thou art".
George OrwellTag: big-brother o-brien the-party
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