"Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?...

Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?... 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."
- George Orwell, 1984, Book 1, Chapter 5


"I heard an Ol' Biddy say today that Social Services used to provide free handrails for the elderly, so that they could have a bath? And it got worse, because she went on to say that once, District Nurses used to visit those who needed help, at home, care for them and bath them in their own homes! Of course, we realised she was raving mad....because people have always had to pay for everything to do with their medical care in Torquayiana"