She knew when to cheer and when to boo, and that was all one needed
George OrwellThe program of the ruling elite in Orwell's 1984 was: "A foot stamping on a human face forever!" This is naive and optimistic. No species could survive for even a generation under such program. This is not a program of eternal, or even long-range dominance. It is clearly an extermination program.
William S. BurroughsTag: totalitarianism 1984 orwell elite-program
Of course he chanted with the rest: it was impossible to do
otherwise. To dissemble your feelings, to control your face, to
do what everyone else was doing, was an instinctive reaction.
Nothing exists except through human consciousness
George OrwellTag: consciousness human fiction dystopia 1984 george-orwell
Always in your stomach and in your skin there was a sort of protest, a feeling that you had been cheated of something you had a right to.
George OrwellTag: 1984 human-rights basic-rights
What we are confronted with now is the problem posed by the economic and symbolic structure of television. Those who run television do not limit our access to information but in fact widen it. Our Ministry of Culture is Huxleyan, not Orwellian. It does everything possible to encourage us to watch continuously. But what we watch is a medium which presents information in a form that renders it simplistic, nonsubstantive, nonhistorical and noncontextual; that is to say, information packaged as entertainment. In America, we are never denied the opportunity to entertain ourselves.
Neil PostmanTag: politics society america television huxley 1984 george-orwell orwell brave-new-world aldous-huxley
Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase of pain. Of pain you could only wish for one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes, no heroes, he thought over and over as he writhed on the floor, clutching uselessly at his disabled left arm.
George OrwellDay by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date.
George OrwellTag: censorship 1984 orwellian orwell censoring
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