35 quotes found
“In this place you could not feel anything, except pain and the foreknowledge of pain.”
“To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory...”
“Privacy is an unusable term. We should instead talk about freedom, autonomy and self-determination of the individual. Being allowed to be yourself, to think whatever you want and to act within the ...”
“Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.”
“OBrien: How does one man assert his power over another, Winston?Winston: By making him suffer.OBrien: Exactly. By making him suffer. Obedience is not enough. Unless he is suffering, how can you be ...”
“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...”
“In the past the need for a hierarchal form of society has been the doctrine specifically of the High. It had been preached by kings and aristocrats and the priests, lawyers and the like who were pa...”
“Suddenly, by the sort of violent effort with which one wrenches one's head away from the pillow in a nightmare, Winston succeeded in transferring his hatred from the face on the screen to the darkh...”
“Outside, even through the shut window-pane, the world looked cold.”
“Nothing exists except through human consciousness”
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process...”
“The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.”
“The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia's life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal.”
“What mattered was that the room over the junk-shop should exist. To know that it was there, inviolate, was almost the same as being in it. The room was a world, a pocket of the past where extinct a...”
“Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist?O'Brien: Of course he exists.Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me?O'Brien: You do not exist.”
“What mattered were individual relationships, and a completely helpless gesture, an embrace, a tear, a word spoken to a dying man, could have value in itself. Proles, it suddenly occurred to him, ha...”
“Anything that hinted at corruption always filled him with a wild hope”
“Always in your stomach and in your skin there was a sort of protest, a feeling that you had been cheated of something you had a right to.”
“Privacy’ is an unusable term. We should instead talk about freedom, autonomy and self-determination of the individual. Being allowed to be yourself, to think whatever you want and to act within the...”
