Motivational Status in English

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.

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

Doublethink is the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously and accepting both of them.

Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.

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

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.

Who controls the present controls the past. Who controls the past controls the future.

In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

One of the most horrible features of war is that all the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

The theory of oligarchical collectivism... is held by only a minority of the people.

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.