“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”
“Measures of controlling the population and resources: ID Cards. An effective system of identification is fundamental to the program… Police patrols. Their purpose is to detect sources of insurgent support, sympathizers, and routes used by the insurgents. Curfew. The purpose is to permit the authorities to identify violators and take actions based on the premise that anyone who violates the curfew is an insurgent. Checkpoints. A system of verifying ID cards in all travel routes.”
Ministry of Love (Rouge State)
“Control- The capacity to cause or change certain types of human behavior by implying or using physical or psychological means to induce compliance”.
“Subject is brought into the facility blindfolded and handcuffed and should remain so during the entire processing…”
“Bedding should be minimal- cot and blanket- no mattress. The idea is to prevent the subject from relaxing and recovering from shock.”
Ministry of Plenty (Rouge State)
“A mission to carry some germs introduce them in Cuba to be used against the Soviets and against the Cuban economy, destroying exports.”
“US Congress passed the African Growth and Opportunity Act, an agreement that privatizes everything, deregulation, ending price controls and giving foreign multinationals the same rights as local companies.”
“Like a mammoth vacuum cleaner in the sky, the NSA sucks it all up: home phone, cellular phone, email, fax, satellite transmissions, fiber optics, microwave links, text, images, captured by satellites orbiting the earth 24 hours a day 7 days a week.”
1984 Quotes
"If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say this or that even, it never happened—that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death." —pg 32
"In Oceania at the present day, Science, in the old sense, has almost ceased to exist. In Newspeak there is no word for 'Science.' The empirical method of thought, on which all the scientific achievements of the past were founded, is opposed to the most fundamental principles of Ingsoc." —pg 159
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