“Ordinarry, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This
may not seem ordinary, to you now, but after time it will. It will become
ordinary.”
“'Blessed be the fruit,' she says to me, the accepted
greeting among us. 'May the lord open,' I answer, the accepted response.”
“Go
to the colonies, Rita said. They have the choice with the unwomen, and starve
to death and Lord knows what all?”
"Because
they were declared Sons of Jacob and therefore
special, they were given a choice. The could convert, or emigrate to
Israel."
“'Resettlement of the Children of Ham is continuing on
schedule”
"Don't
you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In
the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be
no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed will be
expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its
subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten."
"Newspeak
was designed not to extend but to diminish
the range of thought, and this purpose was indirectly assisted by cutting the
choice of words down to a minimum."