1984 Quotes

“I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want any virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:virtue goodness

“Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date.”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:past present control

“In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance.”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:poverty ignorance

“The earth is as old as we are, no older. How could it be older? Nothing exists except through human consciousness.”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:age consciousness

“For, 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 what then?”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:science mind

“I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:mind

“It is not easy to become sane.”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:mind

“The smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to have got inside him, or into the air all round him. She had become a physical necessity, something that he not only wanted but felt that he had a right to.”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:desire

“In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four. Inefficient nations were always conquered sooner or later, and the struggle for efficiency...”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:philosophy

“It was like trying to make a move at chess when you were already mated.”

― George Orwell, 1984

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