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Quotes About Manipulation

Her Parti üyesinin becerikli, çal??kan ve dar bir çerçeve içerisinde zeki olmas? beklenir. Ama her ÅŸeye inanmas? ve savaÅŸ durumuna uygun olmas? için korku, kin, yaltaklanma ve a??r? coÅŸkulanma özellikleri olan tinsel bir yap?s?n?n olmas? gerekmektedir.
~ George Orwell
For the moment he had shut his ears to the remoter noises and was listening to the stuff that streamed out of the telescreen. It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grammes a week.
~ George Orwell
The Ministry of Truth—Minitrue, in Newspeak1—was startlingly different from any other object in sight. It was an enormous pyramidal structure of glittering white concrete, soaring up, terrace after terrace, three hundred metres into the air. 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.
~ George Orwell
Napoleon is always right,' in addition to his private motto of 'I will work harder.
~ George Orwell
Para el futuro o para el pasado, para la época en que se pueda pensar libremente, en que los hombres sean distintos unos de otros y no vivan solitarios... Para cuando la verdad exista y lo que se haya hecho no pueda ser deshecho: Desde esta época de uniformidad, de este tiempo de soledad, la Edad del Gran Hermano, la época del doblepensar... ¡muchas felicidades!
~ George Orwell
The Party claimed, for example, that today 40 per cent of adult proles were literate: before the Revolution, it was said, the number had only been 15 per cent. The Party claimed that the infant mortality rate was now only 160 per thousand, whereas before the Revolution it had been 300—and so it went on. It was like a single equation with two unknowns.
~ George Orwell
LA GUERRE C'EST LA PAIX LA LIBERTÉ C'EST L'ESCLAVAGE L'IGNORANCE C'EST LA FORCE
~ George Orwell
There was a whole chain of separate departments dealing with proletarian literature, music, drama, and entertainment generally. Here were produced rubbishy newspapers containing almost nothing except sport, crime, and astrology, sensational five-cent novelettes, films oozing with sex, and sentimental songs which were composed entirely by mechanical means on a special kind of kaleidoscope known as a versificator.
~ George Orwell
referring to Russian commissars as "half-gramophones, half-gangsters.
~ George Orwell
It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. Of course the great wastage is in the verbs and adjectives, but there are hundreds of nouns that can be got rid of as well.
~ George Orwell
O'Brien alzó la mano izquierda, con el dorso hacia Winston, el pulgar oculto y los cuatro dedos extendidos. —¿Cuántos dedos hay aquí, Winston? —Cuatro. —Y si el Partido dijera que no son cuatro sino cinco... ¿cuántos habría? —Cuatro. La palabra concluyó en una boqueada de dolor.
~ George Orwell
O Partido busca o poder exclusivamente por amor ao poder. O poder consiste em desagregar a mente humana para a reconstituir sob uma forma nova, sob a forma que entendermos dar-lhe.
~ George Orwell
Newspeak, doublethink, the mutability of the past. He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster. He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable. What certainty had he that a single human creature now living was on his side?
~ George Orwell
How could you have a slogan like 'freedom is slavery' when the concept of freedom has been abolished?
~ George Orwell
This aim was frankly admitted in the Newspeak word duckspeak, meaning "to quack like a duck." Like various other words in the B vocabulary, duckspeak was ambivalent in meaning. Provided
~ George Orwell
The Party is not concerned with perpetuating its blood but with perpetuating itself.
~ George Orwell
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 true from everlasting to everlasting.
~ George Orwell
Milk and apples (this has been proved by Science, comrades) contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig. We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of this farm depend on us. Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for YOUR sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples. Do you know what would happen if we pigs failed in our duty? Jones would come back! Yes, Jones would come back! Surely, comrades
~ George Orwell
Todo el secreto estaba en pasarse de unos a otros la doctrina secreta de que dos y dos son cuatro.
~ George Orwell
It is a strange thing, he thought, to be an old god. They worship you, and yet they mistreat you. If you do not want to do what they wish, they make you. It is not fair.
~ George R. Stewart
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
~ George Santayana
I would have done anything to stop the hitting. Anything. So much for human dignity, I think, a few whacks in the ribs and you're calling a fat guy God and eating soil at his request.
~ George Saunders
Or say we have two rival dictators in a death grudge. Assuming ED289/290 develops nicely in pill form, allow me to slip each dictator a mickey. Soon their tongues are down each other's throats and doves of peace are pooping on their epaulets.
~ George Saunders
When a confrontation occurs, people rush toward it, to film it and stoke it, in the hope that someone on the other side will fly off the handle and do something extreme, and thereby incontrovertibly discredit his side of the argument. This river-and-shore arrangement advantages the Trump supporters: they can walk coolly past, playing the offended party, refusing to engage.
~ George Saunders