Quotes from the book "1984" that are Here/Now

[Bill of Rights FIRST]

I think all the quotes in it are here/now unfortunately to EXTREME DETRIMENT(S), etc.

[Bill of Rights FIRST]

“Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense.”

[Bill of Rights FIRST]

“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?”

[Bill of Rights FIRST]

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute.”

[CheshireTheCat]

“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”

[Bill of Rights FIRST]

“And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’”

[CheshireTheCat]

“The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?”

[CheshireTheCat]

“The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.”

[Spok]

“What history teaches us is that history teaches us nothing.” Not from 1984 but still relevant.

[AppyPappy]

See tagline

[MtnClimber]

[CheshireTheCat]

“And after that, you don’t feel the same toward the other person any longer.”

[gloryblaze]

ping for reading over and over again

[KarlInOhio]

“Always eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or bed—no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters in your skull.”

[SMARTY]

Like ‘False but accurate’ ??

[Deo volente]

“It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.”

[ZOOKER]

Not really a quote, but the very last sentence of the book always haunted me.

After being arrested, starved, tortured, humiliated, browbeaten and brainwashed, forced to betray everything he believed in and everyone he loved, Smith's ultimate statement of defeat and submission:

He loved Big Brother.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Truth is hate to people who hate truth.

[Bratch]

[Salman]

We're not 100% 1984 because we have a luxury loving ruling class.

So it's a little bit 1984, a little bit Brave New World, a little bit Clockwork Orange, but also the less well known The Marching Morons.

https://archive.org/details/Galaxy_v02n01_1951-04/page/n129/mode/2up?view=theater