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1  Men were dying because they would not abandon their true beliefs.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 2
2  He might be ALONE in holding that belief, and if alone, then a lunatic.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7
3  Oceanic society rests ultimately on the belief that Big Brother is omnipotent and that the Party is infallible.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
4  For the secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one's own infallibility with the Power to learn from past mistakes.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
5  All that they did was to keep alive in him the belief, or hope, that others besides himself were the enemies of the Party.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1
6  DOUBLETHINK means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
7  He began to grow actually proud of his body, and to cherish an intermittent belief that his face also was growing back to normal.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 4
8  Much more it was because of a secretly held belief--or perhaps not even a belief, merely a hope--that O'Brien's political orthodoxy was not perfect.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1
9  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
10  Meanwhile no Inner Party member wavers for an instant in his mystical belief that the war is real, and that it is bound to end victoriously, with Oceania the undisputed master of the entire world.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
11  For long periods the High seem to be securely in power, but sooner or later there always comes a moment when they lose either their belief in themselves or their capacity to govern efficiently, or both.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
12  All the beliefs, habits, tastes, emotions, mental attitudes that characterize our time are really designed to sustain the mystique of the Party and prevent the true nature of present-day society from being perceived.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
13  Times beyond number, at Party rallies and spontaneous demonstrations, she had shouted at the top of her voice for the execution of people whose names she had never heard and in whose supposed crimes she had not the faintest belief.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 5
14  It was as though some huge force were pressing down upon you--something that penetrated inside your skull, battering against your brain, frightening you out of your beliefs, persuading you, almost, to deny the evidence of your senses.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7