Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. ★ 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. ★ If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. ★ We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. ★ But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. ★ Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell. ★ Liberal: a power worshipper without power. ★ Big Brother is watching you. ★ War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. ★ Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. ★ On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. ★ All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. ★ Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them
