Quotes About Authority

Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past,'" repeated Winston obediently.

For the moment he had shut his ears to the remoter noises and was listening to the stuff that streamed out of the telescreen. It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grammes a week.

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.

Napoleon is always right,' in addition to his private motto of 'I will work harder.

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

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.

BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU

referring to Russian commissars as "half-gramophones, half-gangsters.

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.

O'Brien alzó la mano izquierda, con el dorso hacia Winston, el pulgar oculto y los cuatro dedos extendidos. —¿Cuántos dedos hay aquí, Winston? —Cuatro. —Y si el Partido dijera que no son cuatro sino cinco... ¿cuántos habría? —Cuatro. La palabra concluyó en una boqueada de dolor.

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.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictator- ship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power

How could you have a slogan like 'freedom is slavery' when the concept of freedom has been abolished?

This aim was frankly admitted in the Newspeak word duckspeak, meaning "to quack like a duck." Like various other words in the B vocabulary, duckspeak was ambivalent in meaning. Provided

The Party is not concerned with perpetuating its blood but with perpetuating itself.

Who controls the past,' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.' And yet the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered. Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to everlasting.

Milk and apples (this has been proved by Science, comrades) contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig. We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of this farm depend on us. Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for YOUR sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples. Do you know what would happen if we pigs failed in our duty? Jones would come back! Yes, Jones would come back! Surely, comrades

In the past every tyranny was sooner or later overthrown, or at least resisted, because of 'human nature', which as a matter of course desired liberty. But we cannot be at all certain that 'human nature' is constant. It may be just as possible to produce a breed of men who do not wish for liberty as to produce a breed of hornless cows.

Todo el secreto estaba en pasarse de unos a otros la doctrina secreta de que dos y dos son cuatro.

And he began to understand how power worked in the White House. People didn't have it—they made it. If you wanted to be included in a meeting, you didn't wait for an invitation; you just showed up. He told Mikva, "If you don't use your power, you won't have any power.