Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.
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Context: A philologist working on the Newspeak dictionary explains its purpose over lunch.
Source: Part One, Chapter 5
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — for ever.
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
Always the eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, working or eating, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or in bed — no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic…
WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
'Who controls the past,' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.'