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“How could you have a slogan like “freedom is slavery” when the concept of freedom has been abolished? The”
― Animal Farm (with Bonus novel '1984' Free): 2 books in 1 edition
― Animal Farm (with Bonus novel '1984' Free): 2 books in 1 edition
“The problem was how to keep the wheels of industry turning without increasing the real wealth of the world. Goods must be produced, but they must not be distributed. And in practice the only way of achieving this was by continuous warfare. The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent. Even when weapons of war are not actually destroyed, their manufacture is still a convenient way of expending labour power without producing anything that can be consumed. A”
― Animal Farm (with Bonus novel '1984' Free): 2 books in 1 edition
― Animal Farm (with Bonus novel '1984' Free): 2 books in 1 edition
“in the past no government had the power to keep its citizens under constant surveillance. The invention of print, however, made it easier to manipulate public opinion, and the film and the radio carried the process further. With the development of television, and the technical advance which made it possible to receive and transmit simultaneously on the same instrument, private life came to an end. Every citizen, or at least every citizen important enough to be worth watching, could be kept for twenty-four hours a day under the eyes of the police and in the sound of official propaganda, with all other channels of communication closed. The possibility of enforcing not only complete obedience to the will of the State, but complete uniformity of opinion on all subjects, now existed for the first time.”
― Animal Farm (with Bonus novel '1984' Free): 2 books in 1 edition
― Animal Farm (with Bonus novel '1984' Free): 2 books in 1 edition
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