Jill’s Reviews > 1984 > Status Update

“ Already we are breaking down the habits of thought which have survived from before the revolution. We have cut the links between child and parent, and between men and men, and between men and woman. No one dares trust a wife or a child or a friend any longer. But in the future, there will be no wives and no friends. Children will be taking from their mothers at birth, as one takes eggs from a hen.”

“ power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.”

Definittion of power, and the submission to the Party, sounds like something freemasonry would be.

“ when you dilute yourself into thinking that you see something, you assume that everyone else sees the same thing as you.”

“If You can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.”

“Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious. “