1984 BOOK BEST QUOTES

“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”

“Big Brother is Watching You.”

“In the face of pain, there are no heroes.”

“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.”

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

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

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

“Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.”

“The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.”

“The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power.”

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

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

“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”

“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.”

“Reality control, they called it: in Newspeak, doublethink.” BEST QUOTES ABOUT CHILDREN

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

“The heresy of heresies was common sense.”

“This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.”

“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.”

“If you can feel that staying human is worthwhile, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.”

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

“We are different from all the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing.”

“To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it…”

“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to make all other modes of thought impossible?”

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

“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”

“The past is erased, the erasure is forgotten, the lie becomes the truth.”

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