«1984» adlı sesli kitaptan alıntılar, sayfa 81

Оно не скреплено ничем, кроме идеи, идея же неистребима.

Свобода – это возможность сказать, что дважды два – четыре. Если дозволено это, все остальное отсюда следует.

Как еще разогреть до нужного градуса ненависть, страх и кретинскую доверчивость, если не закупорив наглухо какой-то могучий инстинкт, дабы он превратился в топливо?

The frightening thing was that it might all be true. If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened — that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death?

Под развесистым каштаном продали средь бела дня - я тебя, а ты меня...

Каких взглядов придерживаются массы и каких не придерживаются – безразлично. Им можно предоставить интеллектуальную свободу, потому что интеллекта у них нет.

Тот, кто управляет прошлым, управляет будущим. Тот, кто управляет настоящим, управляет прошлым.

In a way, the world-view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening. By lack of understanding they remained sane. They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left no residue behind, just as a grain of corn will pass undigested through the body of a bird.

It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as well as here. And the people under the sky were also very much the same—everywhere, all over the world, hundreds of thousands of millions of people just like this, people ignorant of one another’s existence, held apart by walls of hatred and lies, and yet almost exactly the same—people who had never learned to think but who were storing up in their hearts and bellies and muscles the power that would one day overturn the world.

For it is only by reconciling contradictions that power can be retained indefinitely.