1984 Quotes

“Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:stupidity intelligence

“So long as they continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a...”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:nature work

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

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:reason madness

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:future oppression tyranny

“Who controls the past . . . controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:future past present control

“He was conscious of nothing except the blankness of the page in front of him, the itching of the skin above his ankle, the blaring of the music, and a slight booziness caused by the gin.”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:writing consciousness

“The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon.”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:memory past history

“We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.”

― George Orwell, 1984

“The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might...”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:war comfort

“the object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war.”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:war

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