β “Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.” 2418 George Orwell
β “The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of independent thought.” 2418 George Orwell
β “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.” 2418 George Orwell
β “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.” 2418 George Orwell
β “Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.” 2418 George Orwell
β “In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible.” 2418 George Orwell