Quotes About Thought-control

La televisione è "reale", immediata, ha dimensioni. Ti dice cosa pensare, anzi te lo grida: deve essere giusto, sembra essere giusto. E ti precipita alle sue conclusioni così in fretta che la mente non ha il tempo di rispondere: "Quante sciocchezze!".

Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are inimical to Ingsoc, and of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction. Crimestop, in short, means protective stupidity.

Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought.

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

Dans 1984, le système est déjà bien mis en place, la dictature absolue fonctionne sans accrocs et pénètre jusque dans l'esprit des individus, le chef est devenu une entité abstraite et lointaine qui n'est plus présente que par ses icônes, la dictature s'exerce par le biais d'une police omniprésente qui passe son temps à récrire l'histoire et à traquer les moindres miettes de pensée libre.

You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.

In NEWSPEAK, words like honor, justice, morality, democracy, science, and religion are eliminated entirely, being replaced by a single new word, CRIMETHINK,

The idea was to have a basin inverted on his head and his hair cut to the shape of it. Skill and money were not needed. Then the idea grew that it was more convenient to leave the basin on his head. Stray thoughts were trimmed along with stray hair; brain-vines, tentacles of thought, were not encouraged to wander. Then, in the interests of human economy, the head of adaptable man became a basin of uniform shape—a basin, a crash helmet. Safe at last; no more thought-cuts.