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<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n1984<\/a> by George Orwell<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 1984 Quotes Showing 1-30 of 3,093<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cPerhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.\u201d tags: truth<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 15931 likes<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Like<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWho controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.\u201d tags: inspirational<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 10713 likes<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Like<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWar is peace. tags: freedom<\/a>, ignorance<\/a>, inspirational<\/a>, war<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 7073 likes<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Like<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe best books… are those that tell you what you know already.\u201d tags: books<\/a>, reading<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 4323 likes<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Like<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIf you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.\u201d tags: secrets<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 3491 likes<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Like<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIf you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face\u2014for ever.\u201d tags: future<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 2741 likes<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Like<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.\u201d 2657 likes<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Like<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.\u201d tags: april<\/a>, dystopia<\/a>, first-sentence<\/a>, opening-lines<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 2605 likes<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Like<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDoublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.\u201d 2375 likes<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Like<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cUntil they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.\u201d tags: conscious<\/a>, rebel<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 2100 likes<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Like<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNow I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.\u201d tags: power<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 2035 likes<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Like<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIf you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.\u201d 1755 likes<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Like<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cPower is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.\u201d 1745 likes<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Like<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIn the face of pain there are no heroes.\u201d tags: 1984<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 1730 likes<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Like<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cPerhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.\u201d 1614 likes<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Like<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cReality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.\u201d tags: 1984<\/a>, human<\/a>, intellectual<\/a>, mind<\/a>, reality<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 1594 likes<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Like<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBeing in a minority, even in 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.\u201d tags: truth<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 1580 likes<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Like<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cFreedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.\u201d tags: political<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 1514 likes<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Like<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBig Brother is Watching You.\u201d 1352 likes<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Like<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.\u201d tags: absurd<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 1330 likes<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Like<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.\u201d tags: 1984<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 1235 likes<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Like<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.\u201d tags: 1984<\/a>, nineteen-eighty-four<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 1231 likes<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Like<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cFor, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable \u2013 what then?\u201d tags: ethics<\/a>, logic<\/a>, metaphysics<\/a>, ontology<\/a>, philosophy<\/a>, psychology<\/a>, science<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 1228 likes<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Like<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull. \u201d 956 likes<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Like<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOrthodoxy means not thinking–not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.\u201d tags: orthodoxy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 885 likes<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Like<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cEvery 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.\u201d tags: 1984<\/a>, future<\/a>, history<\/a>, past<\/a>, present<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 826 likes<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Like<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.\u201d tags: enemies<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 820 likes<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Like<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cConfession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.\u201d tags: betrayal<\/a>, confession<\/a>, love<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 762 likes<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Like<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cSanity is not statistical.\u201d 755 likes<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Like<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cYou are a slow learner, Winston.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Rate this book 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars 1984 by George Orwell 1984 Quotes Showing 1-30 of 3,093 \u201cPerhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.\u201d\u2015 George Orwell, 1984 tags: truth 15931 likes Like \u201cWho controls the past controls the future. 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“How can I help it? How can I help but see what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four.”
“Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.\u201d
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