Like the names of other ministries, it also has a literal application: Perpetual war is what keeps the "peace" the status quo in Oceania and the balance of power in the world, and since the other major powers also use warfare as a means of maintaining the status quo, the two concepts are functionally identical. The Ministry of Plenty Newspeak: Miniplenty is in control of Oceania's command economy. It oversees rationing of food , supplies , and goods. As told in Goldstein's book, the economy of Oceania is very important, and it is necessary to have the public continually create useless and synthetic supplies or weapons for use in the war, while they have no access to the means of production.
This is the central theme of Oceania's idea that a poor, ignorant populace is easier to rule over than a wealthy, well-informed one. The Ministry hands out statistics which are "nonsense". When Winston is adjusting some Ministry of Plenty's figures, he explains this:. But actually, he thought as he readjusted the Ministry of Plenty's figures, it was not even forgery. It was merely the substitution of one piece of nonsense for another. Most of the material that you were dealing with had no connection with anything in the real world, not even the kind of connection that is contained in a direct lie.
Statistics were just as much a fantasy in their original version as in their rectified version. A great deal of time you were expected to make them up out of your head. Like the other ministries, the Ministry of Plenty seems to be entirely misnamed, since it is, in fact, responsible for maintaining a state of perpetual poverty , scarcity and financial shortages.
However, the name is also apt, because, along with the Ministry of Truth, the Ministry of Plenty's other purpose is to convince the populace that they are living in a state of perpetual prosperity. Orwell made a similar reference to the Ministry of Plenty in his allegorical work Animal Farm when, in the midst of a blight upon the farm, Napoleon the pig orders the silo to be filled with sand, then to place a thin sprinkling of grain on top, which fools human visitors into being dazzled about Napoleon's boasting of the farm's superior economy.
A department of the Ministry of Plenty is charged with organizing state lotteries. These are very popular among the proles, who buy tickets and hope to win the big prizes — a completely vain hope as the big prizes are in fact not awarded at all, the Ministry of Truth participating in the scam and publishing every week the names of non-existent big winners. The Ministry of Truth Newspeak: Minitrue is the ministry of propaganda. As with the other ministries in the novel, the name Ministry of Truth is a misnomer because in reality it serves the opposite: The book describes the doctoring of historical records to show a government-approved version of events.
On the outside wall are the three slogans of the Party: The Ministry of Truth is involved with news media, entertainment, the fine arts and educational books. Its purpose is to rewrite history to change the facts to fit Party doctrine for propaganda effect. For example, if Big Brother makes a prediction that turns out to be wrong, the employees of the Ministry of Truth correct the record to make it accurate. This is the "how" of the Ministry of Truth's existence.
Within the novel, Orwell elaborates that the deeper reason for its existence, the "why", is to maintain the illusion that the Party is absolute. It cannot ever seem to change its mind if, for instance, they perform one of their constant changes regarding enemies during war or make a mistake firing an official or making a grossly misjudged supply prediction , for that would imply weakness and to maintain power the Party must seem eternally right and strong.
Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is life, fight for it. A healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter. We sometime lose sight of this force when there is suffering, and too much pain. Then suddenly, the spirit will emerge through the lives of ordinary people who hear a call and answer in extraordinary ways.
Roosevelt Written night before he died. Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war. Not the peace of the grave or the security of the slave. I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living, the kind that enables men and nations to grow and to hope and to build a better life for their children. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us.
It lies in the hearts and minds of all people. So let us not rest all our hopes on parchment and on paper, let us strive to build peace, a desire for peace, a willingness to work for peace in the hearts and minds of all of our people.
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I believe that we can. I believe the problems of human destiny are not beyond the reach of human beings. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live.
I rejoice in life for its own sake. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. I realize the pursuit of peace is not as dramatic as the pursuit of war… But we have no more urgent task.
Share this Quote on Facebook! It supersedes all other courts. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite. We worry about ourselves, our family, our friends, our work, and our state of the world. If we allow worry to fill our hearts, sooner or later we will get sick. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair.
That way lays defeat and death. It is the strength required to bring about social, political and economic change. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.
But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors. In that space is our power to choose our response.
In our response lies our growth and our freedom. You can be that generation. It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but on the positive affirmation of peace. We must see that peace represents a sweeter music, a cosmic melody, that is far superior to the discords of war.
In short, we must shift the arms race into a peace race. If we have a will — and determination — to mount such a peace offensive, we will unlock hitherto tightly sealed doors of hope and transform our imminent cosmic elegy into a psalm of creative fulfillment.
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Islam has 99 names for God. Japanese has 14 words for beauty. Peace need not be impracticable, and war need not be inevitable. By defining our goal more clearly, by making it seem more manageable and less remote, we can help all peoples to see it, to draw hope from it, and to move irresistibly toward it. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it. Yesterday is gone and its tale told. Today new seeds are growing. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.
We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. You seek problems because you need their gifts. Baruch "Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression, and respect. That thought is the problem. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.
Happiness never decreases by being shared. As long as this exists, and it certainly always will, then there will be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be. In the adaptability and ease with which we experience change, lies our happiness and freedom.
Walk to the edge. Choose with no regret. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.
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There is nothing to forgive. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. It is appreciating what you have. Happiness is wanting what you get. Your creativity and happiness brings money. Being happy is being in love with that momentary experience.
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Love is happiness with what you see. So love and happiness really are the same thing I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light I have. It turns what we have into enough and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
It's not what you're gonna get in the end--it's not the final curtain--it's really in the doing it, and loving what you're doing. Can you decide that your happiness can come from someone else's success? Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else. But the truly dire consequences in our lives come from avoiding things that we need to learn about or discover.
Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them. Petit Senn "To be content means that you realize you contain what you seek. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.
Barr "View your life from your funeral: Looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn't? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what wouldn't you do?
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The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. Stevenson II "Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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He is the one that gets people to do the greatest things. Do your thing, and don't care if they like it. A leader isn't someone who forces others to make him stronger; a leader is someone willing to give his strength to others that they may have the strength to stand on their own. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others.
Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men. Eisenhower "Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan. Kennedy "Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Drucker "You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand. It is the only thing. Maxwell "The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.
It is about one life influencing another. Maxwell "You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.
People look to me to do things for them, to have answers. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Lee "The day the soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but ought to be. Both are based on authority. A boss demands blind obedience; a leader earns his authority through understanding and trust.
Solomon "In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.