Quotes About Manipulation

The heresy or heresies was common sense. And what was terrifying was not that they would kill you for thinking otherwise, but that they might be right. For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - what then?

JeÅ›li ktoÅ› pragnie rzÄ…dzi?, rzÄ…dzi? nieprzerwanie, musi umie? burzy? w poddanych poczucie rzeczywistoÅ›ci. Tajemnica sprawnych rzÄ…dów polega na Å'Ä…czeniu wiary we wÅ'asnÄ… nieomylno?? z umiejÄ™tnoÅ›ciÄ… wyciÄ…gania wniosków z wczeÅ›niej popeÅ'nianych bÅ'Ä™dów.

that the Party did not seek power for its own ends, but only for the good of the majority. That it sought power because men in the mass were frail, cowardly creatures who could not endure liberty or face the truth, and must be ruled over and systematically deceived by others who were stronger than themselves. That the choice for mankind lay between freedom and happiness, and that, for the great bulk of mankind, happiness was better.

Sometimes, indeed, you could put your finger on a definite lie. It was not true, for example, as was claimed in the Party history books, that the Party had invented aeroplanes. He remembered aeroplanes since his earliest childhood. But you could prove nothing. There was never any evidence. Just once in his whole life he had held in his hands unmistakable documentary proof of the falsification of an historical fact.

?ujte i po?ujte, pravda i krivda su se oduvijek ?inile sasvim jednostavno shvatljive, no granica izme?u pravde i krivde ?esto je zamagljena i vidljiva samo onima koji s njima manipuliraju.

El camarada Ogilvy, que nunca había existido en el presente, existía ahora en el pasado

tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. "Who controls

then the lie passed into history and became truth.

quien controla al pasado controla al futuro. quien controla el presente controla al pasado.

How could you have a slogan like freedom is slavery when the concept of freedom had been abolished

Nunca hagan caso cuando les digan que el Hombre y los animales tienen intereses comunes, que la prosperidad de uno es la prosperidad de los otros. Son todas mentiras. El Hombre no sirve los intereses de ninguna criatura excepto los suyos.

Lo horrible de los Dos Minutos de Odio no era el que cada uno tuviera que desempeñar allí un papel sino, al contrario, que era absolutamente imposible evitar la participación porque era uno arrastrado irremisiblemente. A los treinta segundos no hacía falta fingir

Incluso los nombres de los cuatro ministerios que los gobiernan revelan un gran descaro al tergiversar deliberadamente los hechos. El Ministerio de la Paz se ocupa de la guerra; el Ministerio de la Verdad, de las mentiras; el Ministerio del Amor, de la tortura, y el Ministerio de la Abundancia, del hambre.

All that was required of them was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working hours or shorter rations. And even when they became discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because, being without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty specific grievances. The larger evils invariably escaped their notice.

WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

Las gallinas -dijo Napoleón- debían recibir con agrado este sacrificio como aportación especial a la construcción del molino.»

Broadly speaking, Communist propaganda depends upon terrifying people with the (quite real) horrors of Fascism.

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 sufficiently 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 no harm, because it left no residue behind

There are therefore two great problems which the Party is concerned to solve. One is how to discover, against his will, what another human being is thinking, and the other is how to kill several hundred million people in a few seconds without giving warning beforehand.

She had not a thought in her head that was not a slogan, and

Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought.

La guerra es paz. La libertad es la esclavitud. La ignorancia es la fuerza.

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.

Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past,'" repeated Winston obediently.