1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four) with Quoates

by George Orwell

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”

‘Who controls the past,’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’

To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself. That was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word ‘doublethink’ involved the use of doublethink.

“What can you do, thought Winston, against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself; who gives your arguments a fair hearing and simply persists in his lunacy?”

‘Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.

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

Everything faded into mist. The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth.

The heresy of heresies was common sense.

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

“We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.”

“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.”