Nineteen Eighty-Four quotes

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.

If there is hope, it lies in the proles.

Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.

Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.

DOUBLETHINK means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

The best books, he perceived, are those that tell you what you know already.

Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad.

They can make you say anything--ANYTHING--but they can't make you believe it. They can't get inside you.

Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.

The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--for ever.

In the face of pain there are no heroes.