1984 QUOTES ABOUT CONTROL

“The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake.”

“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four.”

“Power is not a means; it is an end in itself.”

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

“In the end, we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible.”

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”

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

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.”

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

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

“Until they became 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.”

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

“The heresy of heresies was common sense.”

“Orthodoxy means not questioning what you know.”

“It was as though some huge force were pressing down upon you—something that penetrated inside your skull, battering against your brain, frightening you out of your beliefs, persuading you, almost, to deny the evidence of your senses.” NO ONE WILL UNDERSTAND QUOTES

“Power is not a means, it is an end.”

“The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are different from all the oligarchies of the past, in that we know what we are doing.”

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

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

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

“Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”

“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.”

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

“Reality control, they called it; in Newspeak, “doublethink.”

“The essential act of the Party is to use conscious deception while retaining the firmness of purpose that goes with complete honesty.”

“Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation.”

“Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you.”

“Freedom is the freedom to know that two plus two make four.”

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