Feb 28, 2014
"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, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed, will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten."
Syme to Winston on the subject of the Dictionary in Oceania,
George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty Four, 6 edn (London, Penguin) p.66