1 They were governed by private loyalties which they did not question.
2 They were the homes of the four Ministries between which the entire apparatus of government was divided.
3 Part of the reason for this was that in the past no government had the power to keep its citizens under constant surveillance.
4 Even the names of the four Ministries by which we are governed exhibit a sort of impudence in their deliberate reversal of the facts.
5 A full translation could only be an ideological translation, whereby Jefferson's words would be changed into a panegyric on absolute government.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George OrwellContextHighlight In PART 3: Chapter 7-APPENDIX 6 Or perhaps--what was likeliest of all--the thing had simply happened because purges and vaporizations were a necessary part of the mechanics of government.
7 Each of the three powers which now divide the world is in fact unconquerable, and could only become conquerable through slow demographic changes which a government with wide powers can easily avert.
8 For long periods the High seem to be securely in power, but sooner or later there always comes a moment when they lose either their belief in themselves or their capacity to govern efficiently, or both.
9 These people, whose origins lay in the salaried middle class and the upper grades of the working class, had been shaped and brought together by the barren world of monopoly industry and centralized government.
10 Either it is conquered from without, or it governs so inefficiently that the masses are stirred to revolt, or it allows a strong and discontented Middle group to come into being, or it loses its own self-confidence and willingness to govern.
11 Either it is conquered from without, or it governs so inefficiently that the masses are stirred to revolt, or it allows a strong and discontented Middle group to come into being, or it loses its own self-confidence and willingness to govern.