Quotes About Influence

Few people have the guts to say outright that art and propaganda are the same thing.

how men, when given power over other men, start to behave like pigs.

The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness; only power, pure power. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?

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.

We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull. You

As far as the mass of the people go, the extraordinary swings of opinion which occur nowadays, the emotions which can be turned on and off like a tap, are the result of newspaper and radio hypnosis.

The problem, that is to say, is educational. It is a problem of continuously moulding the consciousness both of the directing group and of the larger executive group that lies immediately below it. The consciousness of the masses needs only to be influenced in a negative way. Given

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.

the only secure basis for oligarchy is collectivism.

Who controls the present controls the past. Is it your opinion Winston, that the past has real existence? -O'Brien

He who controls the past, controls the future; and he who controls the present, controls the past.

The mob is in fact loose now, and–in the shape of rich men–is using its power to set up enormous treadmills of boredom, such as 'smart' hotels.

He does not act, he is acted upon. He feels himself the slave of mysterious authority and has a firm conviction that "they" will never allow him to do this, that and the other.

If one has once read Shakespeare with attention, it is not easy to go a day without quoting him, because there are not many subjects of major importance that he does not discuss or at least mention somewhere or another, in his unsystematic but illuminating way.

Baju adalah sesuatu yang berkuasa. Dengan berpakaian gelandangan, sangat sulit, untuk tidak merasakan bahwa kamu sedang mengalami penurunan status.

El que controla el pasado, controla también el futuro. El que controla el presente, controla el pasado.

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.

People worship power in the form in which they are able to understand it.

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible

They can't get inside you,' she had said. But they could get inside you. 'What happens to you here is for ever

Se le persone non sanno scrivere bene allora non sanno pensare bene e se non sanno pensare bene altri penseranno per loro.

Don't you see that the whole aim of newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?

Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In

We control life, Winston, at all its levels. You are imagining that there is something called human nature which will be outraged by what we do and will turn against us. But we create human nature. Men are infinitely malleable.