George Orwell penned these prescient
sobering quotes in his book, released in 1948.
“He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the
present controls the past.”
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a
human face—for ever.”
“Big Brother is Watching You.”
“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in
one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
“Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after
they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.”
“The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for
the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.”
“The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not
interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power,
pure power.”
“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together
again in new shapes of your own choosing.”
“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.”