QUOTES FROM THE BOOK 1984 WITH PAGE NUMBERS

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

“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”

“Big Brother is watching you.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect… Newspeak is Ingsoc and Ingsoc is Newspeak.”

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

“Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think.”

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

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

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

“You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves.”

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

“The object of power is power.” MARIE FROM ARISTOCATS QUOTES

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

“In our world, there will be no emotions except fear, rage, triumph, and self-abasement”—orwell (Page 272)

“Sanity is not statistical.”

“But if the object was not to stay alive, but to stay human, what difference did it ultimately make?”

“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.”

“Power is not a means; it is an end. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.”

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

“The resistance to a totalitarian regime is not just rebellion. It is a deeply-rooted instinct, buried deep in the human heart.”

“Do you know where you are, Winston? You are here, in the place where there is no darkness.”

“Don’t let it happen. It depends on you.”

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

“The past was dead, the future was unimaginable.”

“Under the spreading chestnut tree. I sold you and you sold me.”