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.

George Orwell
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  1. Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same. - Scott Westerfeld

  2. I could not think without writing. - Jean Piaget

  3. Start writing by thinking, not wrestling with words. - Jonathan Price

  4. If you can't write clearly, you probably don't think nearly as well as you think you do. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

  5. I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. It was easier to think if I was walking and doing something or seeing people doing something that they understood. - Ernest Hemingway

More Quotes By George Orwell
  1. Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.

  2. At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.

  3. This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.

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

  5. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

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