Saturday, March 21, 2020

1984 by George Orwel. Quotes

-You had to live with the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.
-The thing that he was about to do was to open a diary. This was not illegal, but if detected it was reasonably certain that it would be punished by death, or at least buy twenty five years in a forced-labor camp.
-The lives of his mother and his sister have been sacrificed to his own.
-If all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed, if all records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth.
-Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?
-The Proles are not human beings.
-Orthodoxy means not thinking, not needing to think.
-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.
-Why should one feel it to be intolerable unless one had some kind of ancestral memory that things had once been different?
-To wear an improper expression on your face, was itself a punishable offense.
-The only recognize purpose of marriage was to beget children for the service of the Party.
-The Party taught that the Proles were natural inferiors who must be kept in subjection, like animals, by the application of a few simple rules.
-To do anything that suggested a taste for solitude, even to go for a walk by yourself, was always slightly dangerous.

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