Language (quote comparison)

“Such songs are not sung anymore in public,

especially the ones that use words like free. They are considered too dangerous." THMT

“I hold the glossy counters with their smooth edges, finger the letters. [...]

This is freedom, an eyeblink of it." (playing game of scrabble) THMT

“It is the first syllable in charity. It is the French word for flesh.

These are the kind of litanies I use, to compose myself." (Talking about the word chair) THMT

“FAITH. It’s the only thing

they’ve given me to read” - p.63 THMT

“We can be read to from it, by him,

but we cannot read.”p94 THMT

“‘Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?

In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible,” 1984

“A thing that astonished him about

her was the coarseness of her language.“ 1984

“We're getting the language into its final shape--

the shape it's going to have when nobody speaks anything else.“ 1984

“It's a beautiful thing,

the destruction of words.“ 1984