Citations:doublethink

English citations of doublethink

• 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Chapter 2:

  From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink—greetings!

• 1949 June 8, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 3, in Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC; republished [Australia]: Project Gutenberg of Australia, August 2001, part 3, page 242:

  The stars can be near or distant, according as we need them. Do you suppose our mathematicians are unequal to that? Have you forgotten doublethink?

• 1965 May 11, William S. White, “Doctrine of Nonintervention Comes Cropper In Dominica”, in The Morning Record‎^[1], Meriden-Wallingford, Connecticut, page 4:

  Any effort by the United States to halt these creeping advances of Communist imperialism became, by the same mad process of double-think, the only kind of "intervention" there ever could be.

• 1992 March 5, Sylvain Fribourg, “The Agony of the Extasy [Letter to the Editor]”, in Los Angeles Times‎^[2]:

  Or does the hypocrisy and doublethink go beyond a loathing of the human body and an acceptance of violence to a very practical fear that such a club in a predominantly middle-class Caucasian neighborhood will drive down property values?

• 2019 December 2, Eric Lutz, “Trump Lawyer Cites No Due Process as Reason to Sit Out Due Process”, in Vanity Fair‎^[3]:

  The same sort of doublethink is evident in the White House’s treatment of firsthand impeachment witnesses.

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• 2004 August 2, Max Kölbel, Bernhard Weiss, Wittgenstein's Lasting Significance, Routledge, →ISBN:

  So what we come to recognize in rejecting the doublethinking inherent in our every attempt to sustain the vision, to explore the grounding it demands, is the untenability of transcendental idealism. As a takehome message this is, […]

• 2017, Ian Douglas Wilson, Kingship and Memory in Ancient Judah, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 77:

  For Orwell, doublethinking contributes to maintenance of the totalitarian status quo. The doublethinking one finds in the Bible, however, is evidence of a society that was exploring various understandings of its past, a community that […]

• 2012 August 31, Sulma Noemi Portillo, After All The Falsehoods: The Enemy, Death Worship, Psychotechnology, and Philosophical Self-Defence, Sulma Noemi Portillo, →ISBN, page 104:

  The defensive psychological warrior must avoid doublethinking, because doublethinking is instrumental for linguistic tyranny over one's perceived reality, and permits naturally illegal control over one's experience-able reality and […]

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• 1972, Frances G. Knight, Testimony of Frances G. Knight: Hearing Before the [US Senate] Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Secuirty Act and Other Internal Security Laws..., 92-2, September 15, 1972, page 37:

  With so many chiefs, especially the bevy of passport experts scattered around the Department who doublethink every operation of this office, and so few indians to do the work, I have a very difficult time to get letters, reports […]