Quotes About Oppression

They had never seen animals behave like this before, and this sudden uprising of creatures whom they were used to thrashing and maltreating just as they chose, frightened them almost out of their wits.

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.

We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. 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.

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.

A Party member lives from birth to death under the eye of the Thought Police. Even when he is alone he can never be sure that he is alone.

Morrer odiando-os — liberdade era isso.

Hasta que no tomen conciencia no se rebelaran, y sin rebelarse no podran tomar conciencia.

Visi gyv?nai lyg?s, bet kai kurie gyv?nai lygesni už kitus.

He did not believe he had ever heard the word Ingsoc before 1960, but it was possible that in its Oldspeak form—'English Socialism'

all the evils of ours spring from the tyranny of human beings.

Thoughcrime doesn't pull death; toughtcrime IS death

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.

El hecho de escribir ABAJO EL GRAN HERMANO o no escribirlo, era completamente igual. Seguir con el diario o renunciar a escribirlo, venía a ser lo mismo. La Policía del Pensamiento lo descubriría de todas maneras

Podemos estar seguros de que nunca morirá y no hay manera de saber cuándo nació. El Gran Hermano es la concreción con que el Partido se presenta al mundo. Su función es actuar como punto de mira para todo amor, miedo o respeto, emociones que se sienten con mucha mayor facilidad hacia un individuo que hacia una organización

toiled day in, day out, simply at tracking down and deleting from the press the names of people who had been vaporized and were therefore considered never to have existed. There was a certain fitness in this, since her own husband had been vaporized a couple of years earlier.

Todos os bichos são iguais, mas alguns bichos são mais iguais que outros. ... As criaturas de fora olhavam de um porco para um homem, de um homem para um porco e de um porco para um homem outra vez; mas já era impossível distinguir quem era homem, quem era porco.

Ä°ktidar bir araç deÄŸil, bir amaçt?r. Kimse devrimi korumak için diktatörlük kurmaz; diktatörlük kurmak için devrim yapar. Zulmün amac? zulümdür. Ä°ÅŸkencenin amac? iÅŸkencedir. Ä°ktidar?n amac? iktidard?r.

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.

LA GUERRE C'EST LA PAIX LA LIBERTÉ C'EST L'ESCLAVAGE L'IGNORANCE C'EST LA FORCE

algún modo parecía como si la granja se hubiera enriquecido sin enriquecer a los animales mismos; exceptuando, naturalmente, los cerdos y los perros. Tal vez eso se debiera en parte al hecho de haber tantos cerdos