1 All competing pleasures will be destroyed.
2 It is merely an instinct which cannot be destroyed.
3 We do not merely destroy our enemies, we change them.
4 The whole literature of the past will have been destroyed.
5 The past, he reflected, had not merely been altered, it had been actually destroyed.
6 The Thought Police hunt them down and destroy them almost as fast as we can produce them.
7 Before they exposed their victims to public trial, they deliberately set themselves to destroy their dignity.
8 There were the vast repositories where the corrected documents were stored, and the hidden furnaces where the original copies were destroyed.
9 Later I shall send you a book from which you will learn the true nature of the society we live in, and the strategy by which we shall destroy it.
10 It was not merely that the sex instinct created a world of its own which was outside the Party's control and which therefore had to be destroyed if possible.
11 Even when weapons of war are not actually destroyed, their manufacture is still a convenient way of expending labour power without producing anything that can be consumed.
12 It was another copy of the photograph of Jones, Aaronson, and Rutherford at the party function in New York, which he had chanced upon eleven years ago and promptly destroyed.
13 It is a warfare of limited aims between combatants who are unable to destroy one another, have no material cause for fighting and are not divided by any genuine ideological difference.
14 Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered.
15 As soon as all the corrections which happened to be necessary in any particular number of 'The Times' had been assembled and collated, that number would be reprinted, the original copy destroyed, and the corrected copy placed on the files in its stead.'
16 Various writers, such as Shakespeare, Milton, Swift, Byron, Dickens, and some others were therefore in process of translation: when the task had been completed, their original writings, with all else that survived of the literature of the past, would be destroyed.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George OrwellContextHighlight In PART 3: Chapter 7-APPENDIX 17 They slapped his face, wrung his ears, pulled his hair, made him stand on one leg, refused him leave to urinate, shone glaring lights in his face until his eyes ran with water; but the aim of this was simply to humiliate him and destroy his power of arguing and reasoning.
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