1984 Quotes

“Alone —free — the human being is always defeated. It must be so, because every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures.”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:death freedom loneliness

“When you make love you're using up energy; and afterwards you feel happy and don't give a damn for anything. They can't bear you to feel like that. They want you to be bursting with energy all the time. All this marching up and down and cheering...”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:happiness politics

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

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:truth memory past

“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.”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:truth loneliness madness

“He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear. But so long as he uttered it, in some obscure way the continuity was not broken. It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:truth loneliness humanity

“Whatever the Party holds to be the truth, is truth. It is impossible to see reality except by looking through the eyes of the Party.”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:truth reality oppression

“In our society, those who have the best knowledge of what is happening are also those who are furthest from seeing the world as it is.”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:power democracy

“The best books . . . are those that tell you what you know already.”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:knowledge reading books

“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:freedom speech politics

“Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:freedom thought tyranny

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