1 Or they would commit suicide together.
2 Even now, of course, there's no reason or excuse for committing thoughtcrime.
3 Of all the crimes that a Party member could commit, this one was the least possible to conceal.
4 Sometimes he talked to her of the Records Department and the impudent forgeries that he committed there.
5 The thing that was written on the paper might be a threat, a summons, an order to commit suicide, a trap of some description.
6 To be caught with a prostitute might mean five years in a forced-labour camp: not more, if you had committed no other offence.
7 She had had her first love-affair when she was sixteen, with a Party member of sixty who later committed suicide to avoid arrest.
8 He had committed--would still have committed, even if he had never set pen to paper--the essential crime that contained all others in itself.
9 There would be many crimes and errors which it would be beyond his power to commit, simply because they were nameless and therefore unimaginable.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George OrwellContextHighlight In PART 3: Chapter 7-APPENDIX 10 Even at that time Winston had not imagined that the people who were wiped out in the purges had actually committed the crimes that they were accused of.
11 She might have been vaporized, she might have committed suicide, she might have been transferred to the other end of Oceania: worst and likeliest of all, she might simply have changed her mind and decided to avoid him.
12 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.
13 Thoughts and actions which, when detected, mean certain death are not formally forbidden, and the endless purges, arrests, tortures, imprisonments, and vaporizations are not inflicted as punishment for crimes which have actually been committed, but are merely the wiping-out of persons who might perhaps commit a crime at some time in the future.
14 Thoughts and actions which, when detected, mean certain death are not formally forbidden, and the endless purges, arrests, tortures, imprisonments, and vaporizations are not inflicted as punishment for crimes which have actually been committed, but are merely the wiping-out of persons who might perhaps commit a crime at some time in the future.
15 On the contrary, war hysteria is continuous and universal in all countries, and such acts as raping, looting, the slaughter of children, the reduction of whole populations to slavery, and reprisals against prisoners which extend even to boiling and burying alive, are looked upon as normal, and, when they are committed by one's own side and not by the enemy, meritorious.