totalitarian organization adds the position of one man who has monopolized this knowledge, and whose principal quality is that he “was always right and will always be right.”
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...Its most cherished virtue, correspondingly, is loyalty to the Leader, who like a talisman, assures the ultimate victory of lie and fiction over truth and reality.”

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who make sure that no reliable statistics, no controllable facts and figures are ever published, so that there are only subjective, uncontrollable, and unreliable reports about the places of the living dead.”

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...a totalitarian state can neither inspire its nuclear troops with fanaticism nor maintain a whole people in complete apathy.”

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