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1  He knew what was meant by Oceania and that he himself was a citizen of Oceania.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 2
2  Part of the reason for this was that in the past no government had the power to keep its citizens under constant surveillance.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
3  War prisoners apart, the average citizen of Oceania never sets eyes on a citizen of either Eurasia or Eastasia, and he is forbidden the knowledge of foreign languages.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
4  The citizen of Oceania is not allowed to know anything of the tenets of the other two philosophies, but he is taught to execrate them as barbarous outrages upon morality and common sense.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
5  Cut off from contact with the outer world, and with the past, the citizen of Oceania is like a man in interstellar space, who has no way of knowing which direction is up and which is down.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
6  In the C vocabulary, which consisted of scientific and technical words, it might be necessary to give specialized names to certain sexual aberrations, but the ordinary citizen had no need of them.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 7-APPENDIX
7  Every citizen, or at least every citizen important enough to be worth watching, could be kept for twenty-four hours a day under the eyes of the police and in the sound of official propaganda, with all other channels of communication closed.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9