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“It was not desirable that the proles should have strong political feelings. All that was required of them was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working hours or shorter rations. And even when they became discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because, being without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty specific grievances.”
― 1984
― 1984
“He realized how easy it was to present an appearance of orthodoxy while having no grasp whatever of what orthodoxy meant. 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.”
― 1984
― 1984
“إذ لم يكن من المرغوب فيه أن يكون لدى عامة الشعب وعي سياسي قوي، فكل المطلوب منهم وطنية بدائية يمكن اللجوء إليها عند اللزوم.”
― 1984
― 1984
“مما لا شك فيه أنه بالإمكان تخيل مجتمع تكون فيه الثروة المتمثلة في حيازة الممتلكات الشخصية والكماليات، موزعة توزيعاً عادلاً بينما تظل السلطة محصورة في أيدي طبقة قليلة صغيرة العدد تحظى بامتيازات ولكن مجتمعاً مثل هذا المجتمع لا يكتب له أن ينعم بالاستقرار طويلاً على أرض الواقع ، ذلك أنه إذا حظي جميع أفراد المجتمع وعلى السواء بالأمن والرفاه فإن العدد الأكبر من البشر الذين يخدرهم الفقر سيغدون مثقفين وسيتعلمون أن يفكروا لذواتهم وعندما يتم لهم ذلك فإنهم سيفطنون إلى أنه لا فائدة ترجى من الأقلية صاحبة الامتيازات وسيعملون على إزاحتها عن سدة السلطة.”
― 1984
― 1984
“إذ لم يكن من المرغوب فيه أن يكون لدى عامة الشعب وعي سياسي قوي , فكل ما هو مطلوب منهم وطنية بدائية يمكن اللجوء إليها حينما يستلزم الأمر.”
― 1984
― 1984
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