BOOK STARTERS VOL.14 ( GEORGE ORWELL ) ( 1984 ) ( WARNING : POLITICAL THEMES )
“He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.”
“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”
“We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.”
“Until they become conscious they will never rebel.”
“Power is not a means; it is an end.”
“They are not interested in the good of others; they are interested solely in power, pure power.”
“Now you begin to understand me.”
“In the face of pain there are no heroes.”
“Big Brother is watching you.”
“Power is tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.”
“It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.”
“The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.”
“Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind.”
“Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.”
“We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.”
“How can I help it? How can I help but see what is in front of my eyes?“
“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.”
“Of pain you can wish only one thing: that it should stop.”
“To die hating them, that will be freedom.”
“No one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.”
“What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself?”
“To keep them in control is not difficult.”
“So long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.”
“The consequences of every act are included in the act itself.”
“The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour.”
“Stupidity is as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.”
“I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don’t want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.”
“The past is dead, the future is unimaginable.”
“You know the answer already. Everyone knows it.”
“You don’t give a damn what they suffer. All you care is yourself.”
“It is not easy to become sane.”
“No emotion is pure anymore, because everything is mixed up with fear and hatred.”
“They say that time heals all things —- they say you can always forget.”
“The object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war.”
“I sold you and you sold me.”
“How does one man assert his power over another? By making him suffer.”
“Obedience is not enough. Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his own?”
“Everything else we shall destroy – everything.”
“Two and two makes five.”
“Facts, at any rate, can not be kept hidden.”
“The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon.”
“So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.”
“If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable—what then?”
“The lie became the truth.”
“It is like swimming against a current that sweeps you backwards however hard you struggle.”
“Turn round and go with the current instead of opposing it.”
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