“If one is to rule, and to continue ruling, one must be able to dislocate the sense of reality. For the secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one’s own infallibility with the Power to learn from past mistakes.”
― 1984
― 1984
“The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life ... A ruling group is a ruling group so long as it can nominate its successors ... Who wields power is not important, provided that the hierarchical structure remains always the same.”
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“The best books, he perceived, are those that tell you what you know already.”
― 1984
― 1984
“It was more natural to exist from moment to moment, accepting another ten minutes' life even with the certainty that there was torture at the end of it.”
― 1984
― 1984
“Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought.”
― 1984
― 1984
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