1984 Quotes

• Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.
• The proper thing to do was to kill yourself before they got you.
• Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.
• You're only a rebel from the waist downwards.
• Every record has been destroyed or falsified, everybook has been re-written, every picture has been re-painted, every statue and street and building has been re-named, every date has been altered.
• Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.
• Orthodoxy means not thinking - not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconciousness.
• There was no place where you could be more certain that the telescreens were watched continuously. (toilets)
• We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
• The command of the old depotisms was "Thou shalt not". The command of the totalitarians was "Thou shalt". Our command is "Thou art".
• If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - for ever.
• Another year, two years, and they would be watching her night and day for symptoms of unorthodoxy.
• the hostile figure melted into the face of Big Brother, black-haired, black-mustachioed, full of power and mysterious calm, and so vast that it almost filled up the screen.
• Rebellion meant a look in the eyes, an inflection of the voice; at the most, an occasional whispered word.
• but still more it was an act of self-hypnosis, a deliberate drowning of conciousness by means of rhythmic noise.
• WAR IS PEACE - FREEDOM IS SLAVERY - IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH