JonnyThumper

“that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has been told about them is lies.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“This failed to happen, partly because of the impoverishment caused by a long series of wars and revolutions, partly because scientific and technical progress depended on the empirical habit of thought, which could not survive in a strictly regimented society. As a whole the world is more primitive today than it was fifty years ago.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Attention, comrades! We have glorious news for you. We have won the battle for production! Returns now completed of the output of all classes of consumption goods show that the standard of living has risen by no less than 20 per cent over the past year. All over Oceania this morning there were irrepressible spontaneous demonstrations when workers marched out of factories and offices and paraded through the streets with banners voicing their gratitude to Big Brother for the new, happy life which his wise leadership has bestowed upon us.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“found I didn’t want him to be cold, you see. I’m not religious. Well, you know my feelings on that: it’s one of the unkindnesses of modern life that there’s no excuse for it, any more.”
― Nick Harkaway, Karla's Choice: A Novel of John le Carré's Circus