“And perhaps you might pretend, afterwards, that it was only a trick and that you Just said it to make them stop and didn’t really mean It. But that isn’t true. At the time when It happens you do mean it. You think there’s no other way of saving yourself and you’re quite ready to save yourself that way. You want It to happen to the other person. You don’t give a damn what they suffer. All you care about Is yourself. ” Book Three, Chapter VI. “And perhaps you might pretend, afterwards, that it was only a trick and that you just said it to make them stop and didn’t really mean it. But that isn’t true.
At the time when it happens you do mean it. You think there’s no other way of saving yourself and you’re quite ready to save yourself that way. You want it to happen to the other person. You don’t give a damn what they suffer. All you care about is yourself. ” Book Three, Chapter VI. “In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it. Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality was acidly denied by their philosophy. Book One, Chapter VII. “In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe It. It was Inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded It. Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality was tacitly denied by their philosophy.