Doublethink

Expect lots more of this newspeak and doublethink from the Moulton-Kenney Ministry of Love. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Conservatives (read: Republicans) want to be allowed to engage in doublethink on stem cell research, like they do on the more basic tenets of “decency” and “morality.” ❋ Unknown (2006)

Even in using the word doublethink it is necessary to exercise doublethink. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Outside the Inner Party, doublethink is not even consistent. ❋ Unknown (1997)

Outside the Inner party doublethink is merely an extreme form of the phenomenon known to psychologists as cognitive dissonance. ❋ Unknown (1997)

Through exercises in doublethink and self-delusion described in detail by Revel, democracies are fatally prone to questioning their own motives and giving their opponents the benefit of the doubt. ❋ Unknown (1994)

But as I hope to show in my discussion of pro-choice reasoning, doublethink is not all that persuasive. ❋ Unknown (1990)

One essential consequence of doublethink is that the Party can rewrite history with impunity, for "The Party is never wrong." ❋ Unknown (1949)

In practice it was not difficult for any person well grounded in doublethink (Orwell’s emphasis) to avoid doing this, but within a couple of generations even the possibility of such a lapse would have vanished’ vii ❋ Unknown (2005)

The modern right winger could give Comrade Molatov and Baghdad Bob lessons in doublethink. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The doublethink occurs when you consider that, since the 1970s, there have been patients who were prescribed marijuana (not the synthetic Marinol, but actual smokable marijuana) to treat their glaucoma. ❋ Unknown (2009)

These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from ordinary hypocrisy; they are deliberate exercises in doublethink. ❋ Unknown (1949)

Doublespeak or doubletalk is a subsequent elaboration on the word doublethink that never actually appeared in the novel itself. ❋ Unknown (1949)

Rebelling Republicans, notably Rush Limbaugh, reject the notion of doublethink, vying for a pure ideology, and thus undermine pragmatic cures. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He goes on to say that he has used the term "to describe distorted language because it recalls the doublethink and Newspeak that George Orwell said are employed to make lies sound truthful and to give an appearance of solidarity to pure wind." ❋ Unknown (1980)