1984 BOOK 3 QUOTES

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“Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.”

(Part 3, Chapter 3)

“The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently.”

(Part 3, Chapter 3)

“Orthodoxy means not thinking – not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.”

(Part 3, Chapter 2)

“Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.”

(Part 3, Chapter 4)

“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.”

(Part 3, Chapter 5)

“Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.”

(Part 3, Chapter 2)

“In our world there will be no emotions except fear, rage, triumph, and self-abasement. The sex instinct will be eradicated. We shall abolish the orgasm. There will be no loyalty, except loyalty towards the Party. But always there will be the intoxication of power.”

(Part 3, Chapter 2)

“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”

(Part 3, Chapter 2)

“In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane.”

(Part 3, Chapter 2)

“Reality is not external. Reality exists in the human mind and nowhere else.”

(Part 3, Chapter 2)

“Sanity is not statistical.” QUOTES ABOUT GOING AGAINST THE NORM

(Part 3, Chapter 2)

“The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison they never even become aware that they are oppressed.”

(Part 3, Chapter 2)

“We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.”

(Part 3, Chapter 3)

“If there was hope, it must lie in the proles, because only there, in those swarming disregarded masses, eighty-five percent of the population of Oceania, could the force to destroy the Party ever be generated.”

(Part 3, Chapter 7)

“Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters inside your skull.”

(Part 3, Chapter 2)

“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”

(Part 3, Chapter 3)

“The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness, and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.”

(Part 3, Chapter 3)

“We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.”

(Part 3, Chapter 2)

“The best books… are those that tell you what you know already.”

(Part 3, Chapter 2)

“We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future.”

(Part 3, Chapter 2)

QUOTES ABOUT GOING AGAINST THE NORM