1984 Quotes

“Your worst enemy . . . was your own nervous system.”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:self mind enemy

“But you could not have pure love or pure lust nowadays. No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred.”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:fear feelings

“The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things, but over men.”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:men power

“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.”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:power government politics

“The object of power is power.”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:power tyranny

“Obedience is not enough. Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his own? Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation. Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new...”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:power pain obedience

“Tragedy . . . belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there was still privacy, love, and friendship, and when the members of a family stood by one another without needing to know the reason.”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:friendship

“Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:reality mind consciousness

“It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. Of course the great wastage is in the verbs and adjectives, but there are hundreds of nouns that can be got rid of as well.”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:words

“In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:words thought

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