134 quotes found
“In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards.”
“Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. 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 powe...”
“The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to und...”
“We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.”
“As for the problem of overproduction, which has been latent in our society since the development of the machine technique, it is solved by the device of continuous warfare, which is also useful in ...”
“It is deliberate policy to keep even the favoured groups somewhere near the brink of hardship, because a general state of scarcity increases the importance of small privileges and thus magnifies th...”
“He was conscious of nothing except the blankness of the page in front of him, the itching of the skin above his ankle, the blaring of the music, and a slight booziness caused by the gin.”
“How does one man assert his power over another, Winston?Winston thought. By making him suffer, he said.Exactly. By making him suffer. Obedience is not enough. Unless he is suffering, how can you be...”
“And why do you imagine that we bring people to this place? To make them confess. No, that is not the reason. Try again. To punish them. No! exclaimed OBrien. His voice had changed extraordinarily, ...”
“Cut off from contact with the outer world, and with the past, the citizen of Oceania is like a man in interstellar space, who has no way of knowing which direction is up and which is down. The rule...”
“and then the chosen lie would pass into the permanent records and become truth”
“Sooner orlater itould hppen: tength wud chne into concousness.”
“That is her style of beauty.”
“She's beautiful,' he murmured.'She's a metre across the hips, easily,' said Julia.'That is her style of beauty,' said Winston.”
“Reality is inside the skull.”
“Reality only exerts its pressure through the needs of everyday life - the need to eat and drink, to get shelter and clothing, to avoid swallowing poison or stepping out of top-storey windows, and t...”
“Suddenly, like a lump of submerged wreckage breaking the surface of water, the thought burst into his mind: 'It doesn't really happen. We imagine it. It is hallucination.' He pushed the thought und...”
“At present nothing is possible except to extend the area of sanity little by little. We cannot act collectively. We can only spread our knowledge outwards from individual to individual, generation ...”
“If one is to rule, and to continue ruling, one must be able to dislocate the sense of reality.”
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human facefor ever.”
