jana’s Reviews > 1984 > Status Update

“It is deliberate policy to keep even the favored groups somewhere near the brink of hardship, because a general state of scarcity increases the importance of small privileges and thus magnifies the distinction between one group and another.”

“War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the statosphere, 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.”

“On the contrary, war hysteria is continuous and universal in all countries, and such acts as raping, looting, the slaughter of children, the reduction of whole populations to slavery, and reprisals against prisoners which extend even to boiling and buying alive, are looked upon as normal, and, when they are committed by one’s own side and not by the enemy, meritorious.”

“It was now impossible for any human being to prove by documentary evidence that the war with Eurasia had ever happened.”
- THATS CRA-ZY ?! WHY IS HE LIKE LOWKEY PROUD

“Nothing holds it together except an idea which is indestructible.”

winston quickly jumping into one organization that’ll turn him mindless to another 😍😍 AND roping julia in with him without a thought for her AND she doesn’t speak until their relationship might be at stake, wow george orwell really understands women and represents them as more than add ons to men

“They could lay bare in the utmost detail everything that you had done or said or thought; but the inner heart, whose workings were mysterious even to yourself, remained impregnable.”