{"id":322,"date":"2008-03-13T09:07:56","date_gmt":"2008-03-13T16:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bspcn.com\/2008\/03\/13\/top-10-most-depressing-quotes-from-orwells-1984\/"},"modified":"2008-04-02T23:29:55","modified_gmt":"2008-04-03T06:29:55","slug":"top-10-most-depressing-quotes-from-orwells-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/13\/top-10-most-depressing-quotes-from-orwells-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 Most Depressing Quotes from Orwell’s 1984"},"content":{"rendered":"

Written by Alternative Reel<\/a><\/p>\n

#10 – TRAMPLED UPON<\/p>\n

\"TRAMPLED<\/p>\n

“Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined. A world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but more merciless as it refines itself. Progress in our world will be progress toward more pain.”<\/p>\n

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#09 – THOUGHT POLICE<\/p>\n

\"THOUGHT<\/p>\n

“There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any inpidual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live-did live, from habit that became instinct-in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.”<\/p>\n

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#08 – THREE SLOGANS<\/p>\n

\"THREE<\/p>\n

“From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party:
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.”<\/p>\n

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#07 – HOLLOW<\/p>\n

\"HOLLOW<\/p>\n

“Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable of love, or friendship, or joy of living, or laughter, or curiosity, or courage, or integrity. You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty and then we shall fill you with ourselves.”<\/p>\n

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#06 – PURE POWER<\/p>\n

\"PURE<\/p>\n

“The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from all the oligarchies of the past, in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just round the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.”<\/p>\n

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#05 – ERRONEOUS THOUGHT<\/p>\n

\"ERRONEOUS<\/p>\n

“We are not content with negative obedience, nor even with the most abject submission. When finally you surrender to us, it must be of your own free will. We do not destroy the heretic because he resists us; so long as he resists us we never destroy him. We convert him, we capture his inner mind, we reshape him. We burn all evil and all illusion out of him; we bring him over to our side, not in appearance, but genuinely, heart and soul. We make him one of ourselves before we kill him. It is intolerable to us that an erroneous thought should exist anywhere in the world, however secret and powerless it may be. Even in the instance of death we cannot permit any deviation . . . we make the brain perfect before we blow it out.”<\/p>\n

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#04 – PERFECT UNITY<\/p>\n

\"PERFECT<\/p>\n

“The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible, and glittering-a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons-a nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting-three hundred million people all with the same face.”<\/p>\n

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#03 – ECSTASY OF FEAR<\/p>\n

\"ECSTASY<\/p>\n

“A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one’s will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic. And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp.”<\/p>\n

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#02 – A PICTURE OF THE FUTURE<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

“We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now. There will be no loyalty, except loyalty towards the Party. There will be no love, except the love of Big Brother. There will be no laughter, except the laugh of triumph over a defeated enemy. There will be no art, no literature, no science. When we are omnipotent there will be no need of science. There will be no distinction between beauty and ugliness. There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always-do not forget this Winston-always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face-forever.”<\/p>\n

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#01 – VICTORY **Spoiler Alert!**<\/STRONG><\/p>\n

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“He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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