War is peace. – Page 6
Freedom is slavery. – Page 7
Ignorance is strength. – Page 8
Big Brother is watching you. – Page 29
Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death. – Page 27
The best books… are those that tell you what you know already. – Page 52
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. – Page 32
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever. – Page 267
The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better. – Page 256
The past was dead, the future was unimaginable. – Page 255
Orthodoxy means not thinking — not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness. – Page 32
In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. – Page 82
Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious. – Page 74
Sanity is not statistical. – Page 67
We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. – Page 333
It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. – Page 52
Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull. – Page 28
The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. – Page 185
Key quotes from 1984 with page numbers part 2
Sanity was statistical. – Page 60
Syme had disappeared. A morning came, and he was missing from work: a few thoughtless people commented on his absence. – Page 56
The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible, and glittering… a nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity. – Page 164
In the face of pain there are no heroes. – Page 222
Until they become conscious, they will never rebel. – Page 267
There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad. – Page 80
We do not destroy the heretic because he resists us; so long as he resists us we never destroy him. We convert him, we capture his inner mind, we reshape him.- Page 219
Orthodoxy is unconsciousness. – Page 132
Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? – Page 40
Confession to any crime with which a Party member was charged automatically involved the death penalty. – Page 21
If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself. – Page 220
It’s not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself. – Page 123
Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. – Page 84
Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. – Page 221
The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. – Page 223
You are a slow learner, Winston. – Page 45
The paper-weight 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. – Page 175
This is not a man. […] It is an allegory. – Page 13
Sexual privation induced hysteria, which was desirable because it could be transformed into war-fever and leader worship. – Page 121
The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. – Page 80
There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad. – Page 80
The past was alterable. The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia. – Page 45
Nothing exists except through human consciousness. – Page 84
By 2050 Gregory Orwell hadn’t never created his masterpiece “1984”. – Page 13
Reality Control, they called it: in Newspeak, doublethink. – Page 220
He was walking up and down very slowly, and his eyes were not upon the dial. – Page 129
Power is not a means; it is an end. – Page 220
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