Newspeak, "He who controls the past, controls the future"

There's no reason or excuse for committing thoughtcrime

"The whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought."

Monopolizing the flow of information

"Doublethink" is the mental activity of simultaneously knowing and not knowing, denoting an ability to be conscious of the truth while telling lies, so that one could hold two contradictory views at once and manipulate language to meet the exigencies of the moment


"Who controls truth, controls the future: who controls the present controls the past"

The purpose of Newspeak is to drastically reduce the number of words in the English language.Successful Newspeak meant that there would be fewer and fewer words -- dictionaries would get thinner and thinner.
The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

The concept of Newspeak means to simplify a language to its barest, most essential parts. Firstly, this implies the elimination of all opposites. For example, instead of "bad" and "good", Newspeak would choose one of the words and adapt a series of suffixes and prefixes to it to diversify its meaning. "Bad" would thus become "ungood", "very bad" becomes "plusungood", and "extremely bad" becomes "doubleplusungood", and so on. This process of elimination dehumanizes and discounts the emotion behind complex constructions of words.

The purpose of Newspeak is not simply to eliminate words that express "dangerous" ideas, but to so cleanse the language of nuance and abstraction that it not longer can be used to express ideas of any kind.

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In the same way, the associations called up by a word like Minitrue are fewer and more controllable than those called up by Ministry of Truth.

In Newspeak, the most important manner of mind control comes from "doublethink." This word implies, in our world, the term double-talk. Through a manipulation of words, the Party created slogans that contradict themselves. These contradictions caused the people to feel inadequate, because a lack of understanding existed. One of the main slogans, "ignorance is strength" exploited this idea perfectly. Initially one sees the contradiction to the common phrase "knowledge is power." Through "doublethink," the terms commonly held as true suddenly mean nothing. In confusing the populace, much as fast-talkers confuse their listeners through double-talk, the Party hoped to make the individual feel unintelligent.