144 Quotes About 1984

Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

For whom, it suddenly occured to him to wonder, was he writing this diary? For the future, for the unborn.

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 is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.

... seria praticamente impossível reconstruir a história de todo aquele período, dizer quem lutava contra quem neste ou naquele dado momento, pois não havia registros escritos e os relatos orais jamais se referiam a algum quadro político diferente do vigente.

If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any result whatever, you've beaten them.

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 parasitical upon them, and it had generally been softened by promises of an imaginary world beyond the grave.

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.

The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possiblity of independent thought. There are therefore two great problems which the Party is concerned to solve. One is how to discover against his will what another human being is thinking and the other is how to kill several hundred million people in a few seconds without giving warning beforehand.

Science fiction is always about the time it’s written in. 1984 was always about 1948. Science fiction is social fiction.