You will work for a while, you will be caught, you will confess, and then you will die. There is no possibility that any perceptible change will happen within our own lifetime.

You will work for a while, you will be caught, you will confess, and then you will die…There is no possibility that any perceptible change will happen within our own lifetime. We are the dead.

– George Orwell

1984. Part 2, Chapter 8. O’Brien explains the Brotherhood to Winston and Julia, pretending to be a member of the secret resistence group.

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