“It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.”
― George Orwell, 1984
“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.”
― George Orwell, 1984
“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.”
― George Orwell, 1984
I believe Orwell thought he was only making a warning, but did not realize how much of his fiction would become reality.
His book Animal Farm has equally had its parallels in society today.