1 Already a dense mass of people was blocking the south side of the square.
2 The consciousness of the masses needs only to be influenced in a negative way.
3 What opinions the masses hold, or do not hold, is looked on as a matter of indifference.
4 Here in London, the great mass of the people never had enough to eat from birth to death.
5 Nor was it a satisfactory solution to keep the masses in poverty by restricting the output of goods.
6 The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed.
7 An example was PROLEFEED, meaning the rubbishy entertainment and spurious news which the Party handed out to the masses.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George OrwellContextHighlight In PART 3: Chapter 7-APPENDIX 8 At the far end of the room O'Brien was sitting at a table under a green-shaded lamp, with a mass of papers on either side of him.
9 Nevertheless he carefully memorized what was written on it, and some hours later dropped it into the memory hole along with a mass of other papers.
10 What is concerned here is not the morale of masses, whose attitude is unimportant so long as they are kept steadily at work, but the morale of the Party itself.
11 In the ragged hedge on the opposite side the boughs of the elm trees swayed just perceptibly in the breeze, and their leaves stirred faintly in dense masses like women's hair.
12 In the ragged hedge on the opposite side of the field the boughs of the elm trees were swaying very faintly in the breeze, their leaves just stirring in dense masses like women's hair.
13 In the last truck he could see an aged man, his face a mass of grizzled hair, standing upright with wrists crossed in front of him, as though he were used to having them bound together.
14 He was a fattish but active man of paralysing stupidity, a mass of imbecile enthusiasms--one of those completely unquestioning, devoted drudges on whom, more even than on the Thought Police, the stability of the Party depended.
15 War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.
16 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.
17 For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realize that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away.
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