George Orwell, 1984

Quotes

• “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 al...”
• “Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes ...”
• “For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is uncha...”
• “At present nothing is possible except to extend the area of sanity little by little. We cannot act collectively. We can ...”
• “Always eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or bed- no ...”
• “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 ...”
• “He was conscious of nothing except the blankness of the page in front of him, the itching of the skin above his ankle, t...”
• “Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving y...”
• “He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.”
• “The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.”
• “He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear.”
• “Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
• “The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
• “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”
• “Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.”