Hello. Here is a list of 24 quotes that I liked and saved while reading 1984 book by George Orwell. I hope you will like them too. By the way, I am Deepak Kundu, an avid book reader, quotes collector and blogger.
1984 Quotes
- To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone – to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone: From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink – greetings! – Quote from 1984 book by George Orwell
- Who controls the past, controls the future: who controls the present controls the past. – Quote from 1984 book by George Orwell
- Orthodoxy means not thinking – not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness. – Quote from 1984 book by George Orwell
- Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one. – Quote from 1984 book by George Orwell
- Even when you are not paralysed by fright or screaming with pain, life is a moment-to-moment struggle against hunger or cold or sleeplessness, against a sour stomach or an aching tooth. – Quote from 1984 book by George Orwell
- Always yell with the crowd, that’s what I say. It’s the only way to be safe. – Quote from 1984 book by George Orwell
- I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don’t want any virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones. – Quote from 1984 book by George Orwell
- If you kept the small rules you could break the big ones. – Quote from 1984 book by George Orwell
- Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been re-written, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been re-named, every date has been altered. And that 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. – Quote from 1984 book by George Orwell
- If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love. – Quote from 1984 book by George Orwell
- 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 otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent. Even when weapons of war are not actually destroyed, their manufacture is still a convenient way of expending labour power without producing anything that can be consumed. – Quote from 1984 book by George Orwell
- Past events, have no objective existence, but survive only in written records and in human memories. The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon. – Quote from 1984 book by George Orwell
- 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. – Quote from 1984 book by George Orwell
- Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase of pain. Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes, no heroes. – Quote from 1984 book by George Orwell
- Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood. – Quote from 1984 book by George Orwell
- You must stop imagining that posterity will vindicate you. Posterity will never hear of you. You will be lifted clean out from the stream of history. We shall turn you into gas and pour you into the stratosphere. Nothing will remain of you; not a name in a register, not a memory in a living brain. You will be annihilated in the past as well as in the future. You will never have existed. – Quote from 1984 book by George Orwell
- We do not destroy the heretic because he resists us: so long as he resists us we never destroy him. We convert him, we capture his inner mind, we reshape him. We burn all evil and all illusion out of him; we bring him over to our side, not in appearance, but genuinely, heart and soul. We make him one of ourselves before we kill him. It is intolerable to us that an erroneous thought should exist anywhere in the world, however secret and powerless it may be. Even in the instant of death we cannot permit any deviation. – Quote from 1984 book by George Orwell
- What happens to you here is for ever. Understand that in advance. We shall crush you down to the point from which there is no coming back. Things will happen to you from which you could not recover, if you lived a thousand years. Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable of love, or friendship, or joy of living, or laughter, or curiosity, or courage, or integrity. You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves. – Quote from 1984 book by George Orwell
- The choice for mankind lay between freedom and happiness, and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness was better. – Quote from 1984 book by George Orwell
- The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power. – Quote from 1984 book by George Orwell
- No one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means, it is an end. – Quote from 1984 book by George Orwell
- Before man there was nothing. After man, if he could come to an end, there would be nothing. Outside man there is nothing. – Quote from 1984 book by George Orwell
- If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever. – Quote from 1984 book by George Orwell
- If you want to keep a secret you must also hide it from yourself. You must know all the while that it is there, but until it is needed you must never let it emerge into your consciousness in any shape that could be given a name. – Quote from 1984 book by George Orwell