Even the slogans willchange. How could you have a slogan like ‘freedom is slavery’when the concept of freedom has been abolished? Thewhole climate of thought will be different. In fact, there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy meansnot thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

In effetti il pensiero non esisterà più, almeno non come lo intendiamo ora. Ortodossia vuol dire non pensare, non aver bisogno di pensare. Ortodossia e inconsapevolezza sono la stessa cosa.

Правоверный не мыслит - не нуждается в мышлении. Правоверность состояние бессознательное.

Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?.... In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking — not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

They clichés will construct your sentences for you - even think your thoughts for you, to a certain extent - and at need they will perform the important service of partially concealing your meaning even from yourself.

Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.

As soon as you think of fishing you think of things that don't belong to the modern world. The very idea of sitting all day under a willow tree beside a quiet pool - and being able to find a quiet pool to sit beside- belongs to a time before the war, before radio, before aeroplanes, before Hitler.

If he thinks he floats off the floor, and if I simultaneously think I see him do it, then the thing happens.

Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought.