1984
George Orwell
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Once could not learn history from architecture any more than once could learn it from books. Statues, inscriptions, memorial stones, the names of streets – anything that might throw light upon the past had been systematically altered.”
“It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against ones body.”
“Everything other than working was forbidden: walking in the streets, having fun, singing, dancing, getting together, everything was forbidden.”
“Everything faded into mist. The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth.”
“We are not content with negative obedience, nor even with the most abject submission. When finally you surrender to us, it must be of your own free will. We do not destroy the heretic because he resists us: so long as he resists us we never destroy him. We convert him, we capture his inner mind, we reshape him. We burn all evil and all illusion out of him; we bring him over to our side, not in appearance, but genuinely, heart and soul. We make him one of ourselves before we kill him. It is intolerable to us that an erroneous thought should exist anywhere in the world, however secret and powerless it may be. Even in the instant of death we cannot permit any deviation.”
“To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone-to a time when truth existes and what is done cannot be undone: From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink-greetings!”
“There was the usual boiled-cabbage smell, common to the whole building. but it was shot through by a sharper reek of sweat, which one knew this at the first sniff, though it was hard to say how was the sweat of some person not present at the moment.”
“If there is hope, it's in the proles.”
“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.” “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.” “If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.” “Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.”
“Always the eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, working or eating, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or in bed----no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters inside your skull.”
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