Little Sister Podcast Episode 3: Author's Intent (William, James, Kamil)

“We, the Party, control all records, and we control all memories. Then we control the past, do we not?” (256)

“To cure you! To make you sane! Will you understand, Winston, that no one whom we bring to this place ever leaves our hands uncured?” (261)

“The Party is not interested in the overt act: the thought is all we care about.” (261)

“We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them” (261)

“It is intolerable to us that an erroneous thought should exist anywhere in the world, hower secret and powerless it may be” (263)

“They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just round the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal” (272)

“One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution to safeguard the dictatorship” (272)

“It is not enough to obey him; you must love him” (292)

“Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia! Not me! Julia! I don’t care what you do to her. Tear her face off, strip her to the bones. Not me! Julia! Not me!” (297)

“Sometimes they threaten you with something—something you can’t stand up to, can’t even think about. And then you say, ‘Don’t do it to me, do it to somebody else, do it to so-and-so.’ And perhaps you might pretend, afterwards, that it was only a trick and that you just said it to make them stop and didn’t really mean it. But that isn’t true. At the time when it happens you do mean it. You think there’s no other way of saving yourself, and you’re quite ready to save yourself that way.” (302)

“Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me” (304)