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1  They were governed by private loyalties which they did not question.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 7
2  They were the homes of the four Ministries between which the entire apparatus of government was divided.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1
3  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
4  Even the names of the four Ministries by which we are governed exhibit a sort of impudence in their deliberate reversal of the facts.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
5  A full translation could only be an ideological translation, whereby Jefferson's words would be changed into a panegyric on absolute government.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 7-APPENDIX
6  Or perhaps--what was likeliest of all--the thing had simply happened because purges and vaporizations were a necessary part of the mechanics of government.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4
7  Each of the three powers which now divide the world is in fact unconquerable, and could only become conquerable through slow demographic changes which a government with wide powers can easily avert.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
8  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
9  These people, whose origins lay in the salaried middle class and the upper grades of the working class, had been shaped and brought together by the barren world of monopoly industry and centralized government.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
10  Either it is conquered from without, or it governs so inefficiently that the masses are stirred to revolt, or it allows a strong and discontented Middle group to come into being, or it loses its own self-confidence and willingness to govern.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
11  Either it is conquered from without, or it governs so inefficiently that the masses are stirred to revolt, or it allows a strong and discontented Middle group to come into being, or it loses its own self-confidence and willingness to govern.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9