Quotes About Authority

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

We are not interested in those stupid crimes you have committed. The Party is not interested in the overt act: the thought is all we care about.

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.

The instrument (the telescreen, it was called) could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely.

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.

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

The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.

to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

Therefore, from the point of view of the new groups who were on the point of seizing power, human equality was no longer an ideal to be striven after, but a danger to be averted.

The command of the old despotisms was Thou shalt not. The command of the totalitarians was Thou shalt. Our command is Thou are.

Quite apart from anything else, the rule of money sees to it that we shall be governed largely by the old—that is, by people utterly unable to grasp what age they are living in or what enemy they are fighting.

Winston sat in his usual corner, gazing into an empty glass. Now and again he glanced up at a vast face which eyed him from the opposite wall. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption said. Unbidden, a waiter came and filled his glass up with Victory Gin, shaking into it a few drops from another bottle with a quill through the cork. It was saccharine flavoured with cloves, the speciality of the café.

For the hair has grown on my upper lip And the clergy are all clean-shaven

Yönetmek ve yönetimini sürekli k?lmak istiyorsan, gerçeklik duygusunu yolundan ç?karacaks?n. Çünkü yönetmenin s?rr?, bir yandan kendinin yan?lmazl???na inan?rken, bir yandan da geçmiÅŸteki hatalar?ndan ders ç?karabilmektedir.

Dodici voci si alzarono furiose, e tutte erano simili. Non c'era da chiedersi ora che cosa fosse successo al viso dei maiali. Le creature di fuori guardavano dal maiale all'uomo, dall'uomo al maiale e ancora dal maiale all'uomo, ma già era loro impossibile distinguere fra i due.

The war is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory, but to keep the structure of society intact.

To the right of the speakwrite, a small pneumatic tube for written messages; to the left, a larger one for newspapers; and in the side wall, within easy reach of Winston's arm, a large oblong slit protected by a wire grating.

La guerra la lleva a cabo cada grupo gobernante contra sus propios gobernados, y el objetivo de la guerra no es hacer o impedir conquistas territoriales, sino conservar intacta la estructura de la sociedad.

In a Party member, on the other hand, not even the smallest deviation of opinion on the most unimportant subject can be tolerated.

It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption beneath it ran.

But in the future there will be no wives and no friends. Children will be taken from their mothers at birth, as one takes eggs from a hen.

It had long been realised that the only secure basis for oligarchy is collectivism.

They can be granted intellectual liberty because they have no intellect.

Il potere non è un mezzo, è un fine. Non si stabilisce una dittatura nell'intento di salvaguardare una rivoluzione; ma si fa una rivoluzione nell'intento di stabilire una dittatura. Il fine della persecuzione è la persecuzione. Il fine della tortura è la tortura. Il fine del potere è il potere.