Quotes About Subjugation

You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves.

Then the face of Big Brother faded away again and instead the three slogans of the Party stood out in bold capitals:   WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.

I saw a little boy, perhaps ten years old, driving a huge cart-horse along a narrow path, whipping it whenever it tried to turn. It struck me that if only such animals became aware of their strength we should have no power over them, and that men exploit animals in much the same way as the rich exploit the proletariat.

We shall squeeze you empty and then we shall fill you with ourselves.

Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation.

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

The [Victory Gin] was like nitric acid, and moreover, in swallowing it one had the sensation of being hit on the back of the head with a rubber club. The next moment, however, the burning in his belly died down and the world began to look more cheerful.

From the point of view of the Low, no historic change has ever meant much more than a change in the name of their masters.

Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable of love, or friendship, or joy of living, or laughter, or curiosity, or courage, or integrity. You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves.

Bilinçleninceye dek baÅŸkald?rmayacaklar, baÅŸkald?rmazlarsa da hiçbir zaman bilinçlenemeyecekler.

This business of petty inconvenience and indignity, of being kept waiting about, of having to do everything at other people's convenience, is inherent in working-class life. A thousand influences constantly press a working man down into a passive rôle. 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.

there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they haverebelled they cannot become conscious.

Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation. Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.

the oligarchs have to make use of the masses without significantly raising the general standard of living

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.

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

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.

Inefficient nations were always conquered sooner or later

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.

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.

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.

The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.

brought low. The jizya is to be imposed on all of them in full, without exception.