Quotes About Oppression

If there is hope, it's in the proles.

Los Altos quieren quedarse donde están. Los Medianos tratan de arrebatarles sus puestos a los Altos. La finalidad de los Bajos, cuando la tienen -porque su principal característica es hallarse aplastados por las exigencias de la vida cotidiana-, consiste en abolir todas las distinciones y crear una sociedad en que todos los hombre sean iguales.

Bu insan gruplar? aras?nda ne pasifistler ne komünistler ne de Kara Gömlekliler kendi çabas?yla büyük çapl? bir sava?? durdurun hareketi oluÅŸturabilir. Fakat teslim olma koÅŸullar?n?n pazarl???n? yapan hain bir hükümet için iÅŸlerin kolaylaÅŸmas?na yard?mc? olabilirler. Frans?z komünistleri gibi, milyonerlerin yar? bilinçli ajanlar?na dönüÅŸebilirler.

Nothing is efficient in Oceania except the Thought Police

To sum up. A plongeur is a slave, and a wasted slave, doing stupid and largely unnecessary work. He is kept at work, ultimately, because of a vague feeling that he would be dangerous if he had leisure.

And then a voice from the telescreen was singing: 'Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me: There lie they, and here lie we Under the spreading chestnut tree.' The three men never stirred. But when Winston glanced again at Rutherford's ruinous face, he saw that his eyes were full of tears. And for the first time he noticed, with a kind of inward shudder, and yet not knowing at what he shuddered, that both Aaronson and Rutherford had broken noses.

Za one koji žele upravljati nama, rat je mir, sloboda je robovanje, a neznanje je snaga.

The rulers of such a state are absolute, as the Pharaohs or the Caesars could not be. They are obliged to prevent their followers from starving to death in numbers large enough to be inconvenient, and they are obliged to remain at the same low level of military technique as their rivals; but once that minimum is achieved, they can twist reality into whatever shape

Was the Party's hold upon the past less strong, he wondered, because a piece of evidence which existed no longer 'had once' existed?

It was a formidable cry of anger … Why was it that they could never shout like that about anything that mattered?

No se había comprendido por completo que la desaparición de la libertad económica tendría algún efecto sobre la libertad intelectual.

The thing that he was about to do was to open a diary. This was not illegal (nothing was illegal, since there were no longer any laws), but if detected it was reasonably certain that it would be punished by death, or at least by twenty-five years in a forced-labor camp. Winston fitted a nib into the penholder and sucked it to get the grease off.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?

Porque se lazer e segurança fossem desfrutados por todos igualmente, a grande massa de seres humanos que costuma ser embrutecida pela pobreza se alfabetizaria e aprenderia a pensar por si; e depois que isso acontecesse, mais cedo ou mais tarde essa massa se daria conta de que a minoria privilegiada não tinha função nenhuma e acabaria com ela. A longo termo, uma sociedade hierárquica só era possível num mundo de pobreza e ignorância.

It was not desirable that the proles should have strong political feelings. 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.

Physical rebellion, or any preliminary move toward rebellion, is at present not possible. From the proletarians nothing is to be feared. Left to themselves, they will continue from generation to generation and from century to century, working, breeding, and dying, not only without any impulse to rebel, but without the power of grasping that the world could be other than it is.

they'll shoot me i don't care they'll shoot me in the back of the neck i don't care down with big brother they always shoot you in the back of the neck i don't care down with big brother

Od ideja smo prešli na rije?i, od rije?i smo prešli na djela, zbog toga se vladaju?i i boje ideja.

Não havia lugar de destaque que não ostentasse aquele rosto de bigode negro a olhar para baixo. Na fachada da casa logo do outro lado da rua, via-se um deles. O grande irmão está de olho em você, dizia o letreiro, enquanto os olhos escuros pareciam perfurar os de Winston.

Una revolución comienza con una amplia difusión de ideas de libertad, igualdad, etc. Después viene el crecimiento de una oligarquía que está tan interesada en aferrarse a sus privilegios como lo está cualquier otra clase dominante. Tal oligarquía necesariamente será hostil a revoluciones en otros lugares, las cuales inevitablemente despiertan de nuevo las ideas de libertad e igualdad.

It was noticed that they wagged their tails to him in the same way as the other dogs had been used to do to Mr. Jones.

La vida de un animal es solo miseria y esclavitud; esta es la pura verdad.

If you're happy inside yourself, why should you get excited about Big Brother and the Three-Year Plans and the Two Minutes Hate and all the rest of their bloody rot?

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