Nineteen Eighty-Four Quotes by George Orwell

That the choice for mankind lay between freedom and happiness, and that, for the great bulk of mankind, happiness was better. ~ Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation. Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing. ~ Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell In the face of pain there are no heroes. ~ Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love. ~ Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Big brother is watching you. ~ Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad. ~ Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell DOUBLETHINK means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. The Party intellectual knows in which direction his memories must be altered; he therefore knows that he is playing tricks with reality; but by the exercise of DOUBLETHINK he also satisfies himself that reality is not violated. ~ Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell For the first time he perceived that if you want to keep a secret you must also hide it from yourself. ~ Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--for ever. ~ Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past. ~ Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell