1 Winston realized that he would have accepted three or even two.
2 It was more difficult than accepting an intellectual discipline.
3 There is learning, there is understanding, and there is acceptance.
4 This is what you accepted when you set yourself up against the Party.
5 She would not accept it as a law of nature that the individual is always defeated.
6 War, it will be seen, accomplishes the necessary destruction, but accomplishes it in a psychologically acceptable way.
7 DOUBLETHINK means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
8 It might very well be that literally every word in the history books, even the things that one accepted without question, was pure fantasy.
9 Often she was ready to accept the official mythology, simply because the difference between truth and falsehood did not seem important to her.
10 And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed--if all records told the same tale--then the lie passed into history and became truth.
11 It was more natural to exist from moment to moment, accepting another ten minutes' life even with the certainty that there was torture at the end of it.
12 All that was required of them was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working-hours or shorter rations.
13 They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening.
14 And when memory failed and written records were falsified--when that happened, the claim of the Party to have improved the conditions of human life had got to be accepted, because there did not exist, and never again could exist, any standard against which it could be tested.
15 And in addition, only a person thoroughly grounded in Ingsoc could appreciate the full force of the word BELLYFEEL, which implied a blind, enthusiastic acceptance difficult to imagine today; or of the word OLDTHINK, which was inextricably mixed up with the idea of wickedness and decadence.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George OrwellContextHighlight In PART 3: Chapter 7-APPENDIX 16 He wondered vaguely how many others like her there might be in the younger generation people who had grown up in the world of the Revolution, knowing nothing else, accepting the Party as something unalterable, like the sky, not rebelling against its authority but simply evading it, as a rabbit dodges a dog.