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1  He was the commander of a vast shadowy army, an underground network of conspirators dedicated to the overthrow of the State.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1
2  All their ferocity was turned outwards, against the enemies of the State, against foreigners, traitors, saboteurs, thought-criminals.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 2
3  Below the Inner Party comes the Outer Party, which, if the Inner Party is described as the brain of the State, may be justly likened to the hands.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
4  Many of the beliefs and attitudes demanded of him are never plainly stated, and could not be stated without laying bare the contradictions inherent in Ingsoc.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
5  The possibility of enforcing not only complete obedience to the will of the State, but complete uniformity of opinion on all subjects, now existed for the first time.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
6  The economy of many countries was allowed to stagnate, land went out of cultivation, capital equipment was not added to, great blocks of the population were prevented from working and kept half alive by State charity.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
7  The plan is, by a combination of fighting, bargaining, and well-timed strokes of treachery, to acquire a ring of bases completely encircling one or other of the rival states, and then to sign a pact of friendship with that rival and remain on peaceful terms for so many years as to lull suspicion to sleep.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
8  Even the written instructions which Winston received, and which he invariably got rid of as soon as he had dealt with them, never stated or implied that an act of forgery was to be committed: always the reference was to slips, errors, misprints, or misquotations which it was necessary to put right in the interests of accuracy.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4