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Quotes About Control

The possibility of enforcing not only complete obedience to the will of the State, but complete uniformity of opinion on all subjects, now existed for the first time.
~ George Orwell
Quien controla el pasado", decía el lema del Partido, "controla el futuro: quien controla el presente controla el pasado".
~ George Orwell
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.
~ George Orwell
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.
~ George Orwell
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.
~ George Orwell
Was the Party's hold upon the past less strong, he wondered, because a piece of evidence which existed no longer 'had once' existed?
~ George Orwell
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?
~ George Orwell
Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but, on the contrary, that it was impossible to avoid joining in.
~ George Orwell
If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones. She
~ George Orwell
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?
~ George Orwell
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.
~ George Orwell
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.
~ George Orwell
Non possono entrare dentro di te' aveva detto lei, ma in realtà potevano entrarti dentro. 'Quello che ti accade qui è per sempre' aveva detto O'Brien, ed era la verità. C'erano cose, frutto di azioni compiute in prima persona, dalle quali non ci si riprendeva più.
~ George Orwell
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?
~ George Orwell
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.
~ George Orwell
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.
~ George Orwell
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.
~ George Orwell
?ujte i po?ujte, pravda i krivda su se oduvijek ?inile sasvim jednostavno shvatljive, no granica izme?u pravde i krivde ?esto je zamagljena i vidljiva samo onima koji s njima manipuliraju.
~ George Orwell
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.
~ George Orwell
tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. "Who controls
~ George Orwell
Una vez que tu horario se convierte en tu propio, todo lo demás se vuelve insignificante.
~ George Orwell
quien controla al pasado controla al futuro. quien controla el presente controla al pasado.
~ George Orwell
Lo horrible de los Dos Minutos de Odio no era el que cada uno tuviera que desempeñar allí un papel sino, al contrario, que era absolutamente imposible evitar la participación porque era uno arrastrado irremisiblemente. A los treinta segundos no hacía falta fingir
~ George Orwell
They had never seen animals behave like this before, and this sudden uprising of creatures whom they were used to thrashing and maltreating just as they chose, frightened them almost out of their wits.
~ George Orwell