Quotes About Authority

The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-don inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life, imposed by the dead upon the living.

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.

He could not fight against the Party any longer. Besides, the Party was in the right. It must be so: how could the immortal, collective brain be mistaken?

If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones. She

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?

IstniejÄ… cztery realne przyczyny utraty wÅ'adzy przez grupÄ™ rzÄ…dzÄ…cÄ…: zbrojna interwencja z zewnÄ…trz; tak nieudolne kierowanie paÅ"stwem, i? uciÅ›nione masy dokonujÄ… przewrotu; powstanie silnej i rozgoryczonej warstwy Å›redniej; utrata pewnoÅ›ci siebie i ochoty do rzÄ…dzenia. Jedna z tych przyczyn nie wystarczy; zwykle wystÄ™pujÄ…, w ró?nym stopniu, wszystkie cztery.

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.

The heresy or heresies was common sense. And what was terrifying was not that they would kill you for thinking otherwise, but that they might be right. For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - what then?

JeÅ›li ktoÅ› pragnie rzÄ…dzi?, rzÄ…dzi? nieprzerwanie, musi umie? burzy? w poddanych poczucie rzeczywistoÅ›ci. Tajemnica sprawnych rzÄ…dów polega na Å'Ä…czeniu wiary we wÅ'asnÄ… nieomylno?? z umiejÄ™tnoÅ›ciÄ… wyciÄ…gania wniosków z wczeÅ›niej popeÅ'nianych bÅ'Ä™dów.

that the Party did not seek power for its own ends, but only for the good of the majority. That it sought power because men in the mass were frail, cowardly creatures who could not endure liberty or face the truth, and must be ruled over and systematically deceived by others who were stronger than themselves. That the choice for mankind lay between freedom and happiness, and that, for the great bulk of mankind, happiness was better.

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.

Truisms are true, hold on to that! The solid world exists, its laws to not change. Stones are hard, water is wet, objects unsupported fall towards the earth's center. With the feeling that he was speaking to O'brien, and also that he was setting forth an important axiom, he wrote: 'Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Il comandamento dei dispotismi di una volta era: Tu non devi!. Il comandamento dei totalitari era: Tu devi!. Il nostro è: Tu sei!.

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.

tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. "Who controls

The first thing you must realize is that power is collective. The individual only has power in so far as he ceases to be an individual.

quien controla al pasado controla al futuro. quien controla el presente controla al pasado.

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.

heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had

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.

You're only a rebel from the waist downwards," he told her.

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.

BaÄŸl?l?k, düÅŸünmemek demektir, düÅŸünmeye gerek duymamak demektir. BaÄŸl?l?k bilinçsizliktir.

SavaÅŸta yani tehlikede olmak duygusu, yaÅŸaman?n tek çözüm yolu olarak bütün gücün s?n?rl? bir zümrenin eline verilmesini hakl? gösterir.