Samantha

me 5 drinks later, absolutely hammered:

Here are some quotes from the book 1984 by George Orwell. Please let me know of any of these resonate with you on what is going on in our country as perpetrated by the trump administration.

‘War Is Peace. Freedom Is Slavery. Ignorance Is Strength.’

‘He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.’

‘How do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?’

‘The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power – pure power.’

‘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 masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.’

‘Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.’

‘Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.’

‘The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.’